I shut it all down on Sunday (3/10) and switched from doing workouts to get fitter to just doing a little easy running to try to work the nicks out and try to get healthy for the race. It worked a little. The Achilles wasn't as swollen on race day as it had been a week before but the calf wasn't much better. Anyhow, the legs didn't get any worse which I'll take as a positive after two weeks of accumulating injuries.
Here was my running:
3/11/13 - 3/17/13:
- Monday: 7.45 miles in 0:57:27 running easy on Mass Ave.
- Tuesday: 7.89 miles in 0:59:00 running at lunchtime at work.
- Wednesday: 10.17 miles in 1:14:58. Laps around Fresh Pond.
- Thursday: 8.52 miles in 1:06:26. Couple easy hill repeats on Park Street.
- Friday: rest.
- Saturday: 5.00 miles in 0:38:26. City Sports Run Club in Porter Square. First 4 were easy, last mile was easy with strides.
- Sunday: 1 mile warm up in 0:07:58. PR at the New Bedford Half Marathon in 1:20:50.
New Bedford Half Marathon race report:
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| What better beer to toast PRs all around with? |
Sarah and I went down to Plymouth on Saturday to have dinner at Cafe Strega (http://www.cafestrega.com/). We had the rehearsal dinner for our wedding here six months ago and it was still as good as we remembered. Then we spent the night on the south shore.
On Sunday morning we kept tracking Julie's progress at the NY Half Marathon while drove the rest of the way down to New Bedford. We kept cheering her on to the finish of her first race! When we got to New Bedford we circled the YMCA a couple times before finding parking. I jogged over to the Y to get my number then back to the car to get myself sorted. That was all the warm up I got. Sarah and I walked back to the Y were I got in line for the restroom. I must have chosen the wrong line because at 10:53 I was still in line, gave up and jogged over to the start.
I found EJ, Mike and Cody in the starting queue and a moment later the race started. The first mile was too fast: 6:03. I realized that I was still with Mike and EJ at this point and thought I could follow them to a PR but by the end of the next mile I knew I needed to back it off a tick. I went though mile 3 in a little under 19 and decided that it was time to pick it back up. My Achilles and my calf were both muttering their complaints but the miles clicked by fairly easily until I went through the 10 mile mark in 1:00:39, just a few seconds behind my 10 mile PR from Jones a few weeks earlier.
That was when it started to hurt. Ten years of running and I still haven't figured out how to drink a cup of water while running. Apparently, 10 miles is about the upper limit that I can race without taking liquids because it just got harder and harder with each step until I finally turned until onto the final stretch. I didn't hear the footsteps approaching as a SRR runner passed me like I was standing still in that final straight. I thought that it was too late for me to react to get back ahead of him but his passing alerted me to the sound of another runner coming up so I dug in and sprinted it out staying just ahead of someone from CMS just barely catching up with the SRR guy at the line.
I came across the finish line and almost threw up. My left calf didn't want any weight on that leg and my right Achilles just wanted a bag of ice. Instead I congratulated the GLRR team that was already in: Sully, Cody, Andrew, Justin, EJ and Mike...all under 1:20:00.
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| Sully, EJ and Mike post-race. Stole this photo from the New Bedford Half Marathon forum at runningahead...quite the race shorts. |
Mark finished with a big time PR of 1:36:28 and a little while later Jeff came in with a PR of his own in 1:43:39. Sarah, Jeff, Mark and I went out for some lunch to celebrate the many great performances.
Here's a better NBHM race report: the hobbyjogger chronicles
Here are the NBHM race results: coolrunning
Here are the NBHM team results: like you couldn't have gotten here from the coolrunning link above
Here are Julie's results from NY: NYHM
This coming week is about continuing to get healthy and starting to build the distance for the marathon.
9 week down and 8 weeks left until the Maine Coast Marathon!
May your training miles be ever hilly and may all your races have free beer!
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