A strange run today. Tia wanted to go with me, but she wasn’t motivated, and was tired. So she walked a bit, and that had me jogging in place quite a bit. Based on pace and steps, the Nike + listed me at 2.49mi, but a bunch in place. I guess we covered about 1.5-1.7mi linearly.
33:00
2.49mi
When I changed shoes recently, and moved the Nike + sensor from one of my old shoes to the new ones, it didn’t connect. And, of course, I didn’t check before I walked out the door for a run. I spent a couple minutes trying to get it to connect before I just took off without having any tracking.
When I got back, I pulled out the insert, and the sensor, and then clicked the button on the sensor. It’s on the bottom, away from the Nike + logo. When I then tried to start a run, the iPod picked it up right away.
Little trick that made me wish I’d taken 2 minutes outside before the run to try it.
Shorter run with baseball this afternoon. Still sore, but feeling better. I think I’m finally healing up.
14:01
1.28mi
Treadmill running today, late in the afternoon. Felt good, but didn’t push it since I was sore from karate.
14:03
1.34mi
A quick one, not pushing too hard with a karate belt test tonight. I felt much better today running.
16:00
1.47mi
It’s a busy week. I was a wreck today with lots of work and stuff from work, so I didn’t really have much of a run. No karate, but I didn’t feel like running and struggled through this one.
22:12
2.16mi
Back home, hitting the treadmill to get this done quickly with some iffy weather outside.
16:00
1.52mi
My last day in Baton Rouge. Got up early to jog easy around University Lake for the last time this year. I’ll miss the humidity of running at sea level.
The knee is sore, 3 days in a row of pounding on pavement and cement, and I need a break. Back to gravel next week.
25:00
2.15mi
I had to work all day, and then events at night, so I fit this one in between, an early evening run around University Lake at LSU again. I felt pressure to hurry, but I did enjoy the time around the lake.
18:39
1.78mi
I’ve been running every day for almost two years. Someone recently asked me how I managed to stay healthy that long and keep running. My answer surprised them:
“I didn’t”
I haven’t been healthy for two years. As I write this, I have a tight lower back on the left side, and a sore right ankle that I rolled twice in the last month.
If you plan on running every day, you’re going to have to run with some injuries. You are going to run in pain. The sore ankles, tired feet, allergies, colds, headaches, pulled hamstrings, and other maladies are going to afflict you.
That doesn’t mean you run through anything. There are a few times when I have thought I’d have to stop because of injury. I’ve gone out and moved slowly, testing the injury and making a decision every 20-30sec if I should stop. So far none of them have been that severe, and I’ve managed to muddle through some slow runs.
Don’t let injury necessarily stop you, but modify what you do, pay attention, and if you are getting worse, stop. You’ll definitely prolong healing times, but I have been amazed how much more in touch with my body I am and how I’ve run through injuries over a few weeks.
Got some new running shoes yesterday, which were sorely needed. My old ones were in bad shape, with the heal fabric starting to rip on both of them. I probably should have replaced them months ago, but I had been running a decent amount in my trail shoes, and on gravel, so I kept putting this off.
I switched to try the Nike Pegasus brand last year and I liked them. They were the first shoes I tried on yesterday, they felt good, so I went with them. No need to mess around and try others since these have worked well.
Now it’s time to get Delaney out there and get running before I head to baseball today.
A morning run, but a rough one for Delaney. He didn’t eat enough and struggled to get going. He did push on and finish with a good jog. No Nike+, but I jogged next to him and using mapping software, have a 1.46mi run
~21:00
1.46mi
