miles to go...

I did a fun 11+ miler with William today, bringing my total for the week to 31 miles. This more than doubled my weekly total from last week. Needless to say, I have many, many, many more miles to run before I am even close to ready to complete my 50 miler. It was fun running where Mike Luvin' and the Pain Train do their time-trial for the McDonald Douglas 50K. I wish I had the sack to go as fast as them, but my skills do not pay the bills like theirs. Oh well... :) Regardless of my skills, the run today felt great, it was a beautiful place to run, and I even ran into my old neighbor who is prepping for the upcoming 50K. Good luck to Dennis with his 24 hour run (in progress) For now, Im off to go on a date with my lady-love!

Seatbelts.

checking in...

Its been a bit since my last post. Things have been up and down with my running. I feel like I am on the upswing right now, Ive done 2 10 milers so far this week and am pretty happy about that. I am still waiting to get fitted for orthotics and in the in between am stuffing baby socks under the inside part of my heel in all my shoes. It has been a miracle fix! It doesnt hurt to go up stairs or run up hills (as much) on my hip. I cant wait to see how the custom made orthotics fit. Should be amazing. Here is a website plug. www.runningahead.com this site is garmin compatible and is pretty slick. Lots of graphs and charts and different ways to track your training data. I enjoy it. William gave me a call the other day to check in and I really appreciated that. For the most part, I feel like I am in the company of giants when I run with my friends, but am rarely made to feel less than equal. That is a nice thing to be able to say about the company one keeps.

Seatbelts.

gotta wrap my head around it...

Its been a bit since I last posted. I feel like I am plagued with little wussy injuries that shouldnt be hampering me the way they are. My hip starts to hurt if I run more than like 7 miles, so Ive been doing no more than 7 mile runs lately. I know I have time before the PCT, but I am having some serious doubt about how the hell I am going to finish a 50 miler. I am supposed to be getting some orthotics soon, and hopefully that will fix the biomechanical mess that is Kurtis. I havent really been pushing it that much either, mostly because of the irritation it causes my hip/knee/feet. So, tomorrow I am going to go for at least 3 or 4 miles, just to keep moving. I feel like I have quit on myself a little, and I hate that feeling. I need to get back on top of it, wrap my head around this running stuff, and get going.

On a different note, my kid is awesome! He is getting a huge personality and is becoming much more predictable with his sleeping, and that is a very good thing.

Falling Off

So, I did a 5 miler yesterday and a 4 today, today felt terrible, my left knee is really bothering me and I really feel like it is stemming from my car wreck in January. My hip hurts because of the accident so to accommodate that I change my gait which I think is causing me to have some pain in my right foot as well as my left knee. Now, this could all be separate issues, but it doesnt feel that way. I go to the doc on friday and my friend Mike, the PT I run with, is gonna look at it friday before I go to the doc, so I will go in there loaded for bear. I really want to get this resolved soon. The massages didnt really seem to help, they felt great, but didnt resolve my hip pain like I was hoping for.
I was telling mike today when we were running that if I look back over all my athletic career, I start really strong and peak, but really struggle with falling off and not maintaining that peak and building off of it. I end up starting over, re-committing myself to running, peak, and fall off again. I want to break that cycle, and felt like that was happening before these nagging pains started up this week.
Im not really sure where to go from here, hopefully the doc will have a decent plan of action. I am really sick of all of this and just want to be back to good.
Seatbelts.

"Live Boldly." maryanne radmacher

Quotes...

So, I will be throwing some quotes out, just so my wife finds my blog while she is working. For example - "Lean Forward into your Life" - Maryanne Radmacher Now, while jess is working, she will stumble across my running blog!

Onto the running update. I had a 2009 mileage record this past week - 50.8. I was quite happy with that. I did 20 yesterday with a couple of friends, It was a rough 20, most of it around bush park or around the track at willamette stadium. Thankfully I had my ipod, so that was helpful. I know I need to start doing my longer runs on trail, but couldnt string it together for yesterday. Either way, it was good mileage for me.

Hagg Lake - I cant wait to hear how Hagg Lake treated my friends yesterday, I will have to check results to see how Luvin' and The Pain Train did. Anyway, good job to all who finished! Cant wait to hear about it. Have a great week everyone!

Seatbelts.

Ouch!

I did 11.3 in the rain this am, got some nip chaffing! Not too fun. I even commented towards the end of the run that "I think my nips are getting sore!" I took my jacket off when I got home and I had bled thru! Thats never happened to me before. I definitely have to be more careful in the future.

Ive been working on a year long mileage tracking sheet, I just filled in January and February and my numbers are pretty sad. Ive gotta pick it up for the PCT!

Seatbelts.

Been too Long, again...

It has been a long time since my last running update, thankfully, it hasnt been that long since my last run. I will try to remember everything Ive done in the last few weeks.
I kinda jumped back in full-force (sort of) after getting hit by the car, I started slow, and then a week later bumped it up with William and did a slow 8 at Shellburg, the following week, I did about 15 or so total miles, and then last weekend, I did 10 with Mike on Saturday, and then 8 again with the Pain Train on Sunday, I felt great! I ran on Monday as well, and then again on Thursday and Friday (5 each). So I am feeling like I am getting back on track. The plan is to do 15 plus tomorrow with Mike at Bush Park, so that'll be some good distance.
I am still having some hip soreness, and am hoping that it will go away soon. Also, at the urging of the Pain Train, I did register for the PCT Ultra 50 Miler at the end of July, and I am really excited about that! I have a lot of work to do between now and then.
I took some video and pics at Shellburg from a couple of weeks ago with the free video camera I got in the mail in December. The are a bit blurry, but anyway... Enjoy!

Seatbelts.