Did another 40 minutes of cardio today. A short day because I had to get home for movie night. Friday night had become movie night at home since it was a rest day during training. I’ll probably do 55 minutes tomorrow.
I’ve been doing all the shin strengthening exercises that I pulled from [...]

I was doing search for shin splints on the web, and stress fractures are mentioned with them alot. Here’s a nice pic of a stress fracture found at another website.

This is kinda what I saw when I looked at my xrays. Like a shadowy lump on the edge of the bone. Hmmmmm. [...]

Went to see my MD yesterday and she says its tibial osterotitus (or something like that). “Did you ever hear of shin splints? Well, that’s what you have.” Then I asked about a stress fracture and told her about the lump on the bone. She kinda frowned and pushed on it, [...]

You just run and run, and recover and recover, and if you don’t fall completely apart by race day (or during it), they you’ve done ok? I thought it was about getting fast enough to endure. Now it seems to me its just trying to get to the finish line with few enough [...]

I did the 7 mile long run today. It wasn’t too bad. Ok, I did the first two miles on the treadmill and the last 5 on the track. I also did a few 1 lap walking breaks at some of the mile points. Real slow. 12 minute pace. I’m [...]

My feet got bigger. Damn. My toes are getting scrunched at the end of my shoes and I have a small blister on one toe. I’m going to blame my shoe problem for my slow run times and my sore shin. Its the only excuse that I can come up with [...]

Ok, I’m going to be lazy and just reprint here what I posted on the V-board.
Yesterday I ran in my first 5K as part of my half marathon training. Boy, what an eye opener!
First, I couldn’t figure out how fast to go. All the people around me just messed up all the points [...]

Ok, its been almost a week. Here’s what happened.
I got sick, then I got sick and damn if I didn’t get sick again. If I could stop getting whatever this fever-sore throat-stuffy nose-body ache sickness thing is, then I could get me butt to the gym. Sick last Sat and [...]

Totally psyched about my new Polar S210 heart rate monitor. I tried it out a few nights ago and it works great. It takes a little getting used to because its like your wearing an underwire bra (yes, it does leave a red impression that looks like I was wearing one), but I’ve [...]

This morning I’m due for the 5 mile long run. I’ve been icing and taking aspirin to compbat the muscle pull. Its still a little tight, but Friday I ran 3.5 miles (SLOW!) and it was ok. Its kinda sore when I’ve been sitting for a while. Yesterday I did a [...]