A Passion for Running

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running myself out of the slump

passion for running category: running on Tuesday, April 17 2007

Sometimes the only way to change things is to keep on truckin’. In my case, after that foot sprain, I needed to run to get over my tentativeness about running.

And with that, I set out to run. And I’ve run six days straight. Here are some details about my last three runs:

Sunday I ran a partial tempo run. The run was 60 minutes and consisted of roughly equal amounts of time for warm up, tempo and cool down. Overall pace for exactly eight miles was 7:38 minutes/mile into a heckuva headwind.

Yesterday was my 20 mile long run. I got that baby done in another headwind. I ran 20.42 miles at an 8:47 minute/mile pace.

And today (the day after my long run), I managed a very decent nine miles at a 7:58 minute per mile pace.

Even better news is my foot feels terrific with absolutely no signs of the injury.

What’s next Coach?




4 Comments

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Comment by Andrew Seeley

Tuesday April 17, 2007 @

Why MP specific training runs of course…

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Comment by Thomas

Wednesday April 18, 2007 @

That tempo run sounds mightily impressive, especially if it was into a headwind.

You said a while ago that you think you might be one year behind me. Judging from workouts like these I’d say you’re much, much closer.

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Comment by darrell

Wednesday April 18, 2007 @

Man, you have improved so much over the course of this training. Quite the testimonial for you and your coach.

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Comment by Aaron Engelsrud

Thursday April 19, 2007 @

This hit pretty close to home… I’ve not run for 6 days. I just haven’t been able to fit it in (not entirely true, but I have been really busy). I just need to get out and get moving!

Nice work!

Aaron

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