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Alumni v. The Current Team

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Location:

South Hill,VA,United States

Member Since:

Oct 23, 1983

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Recover From Injury

Running Accomplishments:

1 Mile - 4:54 (16 yrs.) - 1986

2 Mile - 10:49 (16 yrs.) - 1986

5K - 16:44 (16 yrs.) - 1986

8K - 30:32 (16 yrs.) - 1986

5K - 19:36 (37 yrs.) - 2008

8K - 33:29 (36 yrs.) - 2006

10K - 42:38 (38 yrs.) - 2008

13.1 - 1:38:53 (38 yrs.) - 2008

26.2 - 3:31:26 (38 yrs.) - 2008

Short-Term Running Goals:

Train consistently and smart. Run some local races and hope to lower PR's every once in awhile.

Long-Term Running Goals:

I would love to see a 5:XX for a mile just one more time. Go under 20 in a 5K. And a sub 40 for a 10K.

Personal:

Born in 1970. Grew up in Richmond, Virginia. Ran high school track and cross country. Also lived in the Outer Banks of North Carolina for a few years. Now living in South Hill, Virginia. Married since 1995 and have two children. Have been a police officer since 1994.

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Mon, Aug 10, 2009
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Got off from work this afternoon and it was 212ºf outside.  Okay, okay with the Heat Index it was only about half that.  Between 103ºf - 105ºf.  So I went to the gym.

Pushed things more today.  Fastest I have been since coming back.  Leg was good, cardio bad.  It was certainly a sweatfest going on. Walked around for about 3 minutes afterwards, then used the elliptical.  I was exhausted when all was done.

Treadmill - 4 miles - 8:00, 7:30, 7:00, 8:00 -  30:30 - 7:38 avg.

Elliptical - 20:00 - 2 mile run equivalent 

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Tue, Aug 11, 2009
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Uh-oh that little twinge in my knee was hurting a lot more today.  Taking ibuprofen and icing it.  Still hot out, and I did not need to run on the road with this knee hurting so I ellipticaled.

The good news is the calf has not hurt in about 2 weeks !!!

Elliptical - 40:00 - 4 mile run equivalent 

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Wed, Aug 12, 2009
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Took the 1st mile easy, then the plan was to see if I could run the next 2 miles at 8:00 pace.  Just wanted to see if I could.  2nd mile split was 15 seconds faster than I had planned.  Tried to maintain pace the next mile.  I would have sworn I slowed by at least 10 - 20 seconds.  Turns out it was only a few thousandths of a second slower.  Very easy recovery pace for the last mile. 

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Thu, Aug 13, 2009
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Sat, Aug 15, 2009
Race: Alumni v. The Current Team (3.11 Miles) 00:24:12
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Making this entry 8 days later ... better late than never I suppose.

For the past 5 or 6 years my old high school cross country team has held an Alumni v. The Current Team race.  This was the 3rd time I was able to make it.  Only four other people from my years were there.  The rest were recent grads.  It was great seeing some old faces again.

I have trained so little since March.  I was nervous about even running in the first place.  Calf has been good for a few weeks now, but now my knee is bugging me.  I know the reason.  Too much too soon.  Normally I would have backed off, but I wanted to get in as much training in a short time to be able run this.

Slight warm-up.  Knee hurt the entire time.

Race went as expected.  Every high schooler took off like rockets.  I hung on with a couple alumni and beat a few of the girls and JV boys.  Surprised I could go under 8:00 pace.

Knee stopped hurting 1 mile into it.  But over the next couple of days it stiffened to the point I had to make a visit to the doctor.  We both agreed it was just very inflamed, but if it did not get better with rest then come back for another exam.  He gave me several free samples of Celebrex.  It has felt better with the rest, but still has some twinges even when walking normally.  Looking forward to when I can begin training again. 


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