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First Attempt at Running in 28 days
27, Mar 2010The general rule of thumb is that after you exert yourself in a difficult race, you take off as many days as there are miles in the race. If you run a 5k, 3 days is good. If you race a 10K, plan for 6 days. In the case of the marathon, that left 26.2 days for me to rest and recoup. As of Friday, that time period has come and gone.
I tried running again as soon as the muscle soreness started to fade, about a week after the marathon. Although my leg muscles felt fine, I noticed a brand new injury to add to my ever growing list of malfunctions. It’s something between a calf muscle strain and achilles tendonitis… right at the juncture of those two tissues in my left calf.
The initial indications starting popping up a few days before the marathon, but they were barely noticable. On race morning, I felt the discomfort in that region, but stretched it out and took a few asprin… and it didn’t really bother me again during the race. In fact, it was completely unnoticable in the days following until I tried running again. And then about a week later when I tried running again. Now at the end of the 26 days, it’s still there.
Tomorrow, my wife and I are running the 4-mile Colon Cancer Challenge in Central Park. http://www.nyrr.org/races/2010/ccc/index.asp#
The plan is to take it really slow. If I can make it through the 4 miles, I’ll consider it to be a tremendous success. We did a little slow jogging last weekend and it felt fine. So fingers crossed.
J
June 10th – NYC Chase Corporate Challenge
10, Jun 2009Tonight was a great night to race in Central Park and I think the 3.5 mile Chase Corporate Challenge went off without a hitch. It was a slightly humid 70 degrees which made for pretty comfortable conditions. I had a good race, coming across the finish line at 21:25 with 6:07 mile-splits. I’m going to guess that puts me in the top 150 or so.
The journey to the starting corrals seemed a little less hectic than it’s felt in previous years. I began the race 7 or 8 rows back from the start line and never felt like it was too congested. I heard from people further back in the corrals that the start went pretty smooth for them as well.
I like the course. Although there are a few rolling hills, I think its actually a small net decline. I’ve never seen so many water stations in a three mile race, but I guess that a lot of people do this as a fun run and are therefore out on the course for a while.
There are also some pretty fast runners that come out for the Corporate Challenge. I heard the winner was a JP Morgan employee and that he ran a 16:45-ish race. That’s really freaking fast. Like 4:45 mile split fast.
There’s also a lot of runners that go out really fast and then die after the first mile. I was passing people left and right starting at the 1.5 mile point. There were also a lot of people that finished around me looking pretty strong, whereas I know I was completely spent running a 21:25.
There was good food in the tents for those with access. The beer tickets at the end were a nice treat as well, thanks JP Morgan Chase!
J
June 3rd = National Running Day
2, Jun 2009So go out and run tomorrow!
Over at the NYRR website, you can find all sorts of useful information about how to celebrate all day long, all around the 5 boroughs. Head over to: http://www.nyrr.org/races/2009/running_day.asp
There’s even a group run through central park led by Olympian Deena Kastor!
J
- In: Miscellaneous
- Tags: central park, deena castor, national running day
39:23
16, May 2009That’s my new 10k PR from today’s Healthy Kidney 10k. Not exactly the time I was hoping for, but overall I’m pretty content. It was a nasty day out and I was probably almost over-tapered. Still, I think I kept it real with 6:21 splits! Also a top 3.7% finish was pretty solid. Here are my stats…
(thanks for the picture Matt @ www.nycrunningblog.com)
| Sex/Age | M28 |
| OverallPlace | 279 |
| GenderPlace | 249 |
| AgePlace | 74 |
| FinishTime | 39:23:00 |
| SplitTime | 0:19:47 |
| Pace/Mile | 6:21 |
| AGTime | 39:22:00 |
| AgeGenderPlace | 411 |
| AG % | 68.10% |
The good news is that I ran negative splits, which I’m proud of. I was just counting on them being a little more negative. But it was one of those races where the tanks were empty by the time I hit the last 800M marker, and I still finished strong, which is a great thing.
Here are some race wrap-ups, mine’s coming later on today…
- http://www.thefinalsprint.com/2009/05/tadese-tola-breaks-healthy-kidney-10k-record/
- http://kbrunsdisney.blogspot.com/2009/05/healthy-kidney-10k.html
- http://www.nycrunningblog.com/2009/05/16/tadese-tola-wins-healthy-kidney-10k-sets-race-record/
- http://jensfabjourney.blogspot.com/2009/05/setback-o.html
- http://most-running.blogspot.com/2009/05/healthy-kidney-10k.html
Also a big congratulations to my lovely fiance Lauren, her coworker Salpi and her father Larry for finishing not far behind me! Job well done team.
Check back later today for more info!
J
Morning Runs / Progression Runs
22, Apr 2009Writing for this blog has forced me to really dig deep into the vaults of running topics so that I have material to cover in my posts. When I started this thing a month ago, I had no idea that I would be reading every piece of running literature that I can get my hands on. Guess what, it pays off. Just like any other sport/hobby/activity, if you want to get better, knowledge is power. Most of the time, I don’t even actively try to incorporate new techniques into my training program, it just kind of happens. Take this morning for instance…
I hate running first thing in the morning.
Interval Friday went down a little easier than I expected considering I was out fairly late last night and had nearly a half dozen delicious Rogue Dry Hopped Ales. And a Newcastle. And a Texas Style Cheeseburger. With a generous heap of spicy curly fries. And 4 Waffles for breakfast, with extra syrup. I did six 800M splits averaging 10.4 mph (or roughly 5:45 in full mile). The pace felt just right, I normally push myself a little faster on the intervals, but that normally puts me in rough shape when it comes time to do my next run.
Tomorrow is Saturday and I’m planning on a Manhattan Perimeter Loop bike ride to take the place of my long run (I know, I’ll explain how ot do it soon). I think while I’m training for the shorter distance races, I’ll save myself some injury risk by limiting long runs to every other week and trying to sub in some 4 hour bikes to take the place.
Which brings me to Sunday. I’d like to run the Seventh Annual Run as One, Presented by JP Morgan Chase. It’s a 4 Miler in Central Park and for me it’s all contingent upon the weather. This is kind of a last second decision, and a 4 miler isn’t such a common race distance so I’m not making any attempt to set a PR (though I’m not sure I have any 4 milers in my back catalog of races so in that sense, maybe I will). I checked about 2 hours ago and there was a 30% chance of rain begining at 7am. Now I just checked again and that’s dropped down to 20%, which might just be the threshold for me to compete. If you haven’t registered for the race yet, you can do so here: http://www.nyrr.org/races/2009/r0419×00.asp
Where To Run in NYC
25, Mar 2009I’ve been running on the treadmill a lot lately, for two reasons. 1) It’s winter. 2) It’s easier on the old joints.
But the springtime is approaching and it’s time to get back outdoors (gradually, I know). I love running outside in Manhattan, but I would argue that your choices are fairly limited…
Option 1 – Central Park
This is the most obvious way to get your run on in NYC. The loop is actually somewhat tricky to follow, so you can either enter the park and run around until you find your way out (which is how I learned)… or you can do your homework beforehand and memorize the twists and turns. Here are some great maps:
http://www.soundkeepers.com/running/nyc_big_map.html
http://www.centralpark.com/usr/maps/runnersmap_05_13_08.pdf
Chase Corporate Challenge
25, Mar 2009I signed up today for the Chase Corporate Challenge. Pretty exciting stuff since my employer didn’t participate last year.
The Corporate Challenge is a 3.5 mile race in Central Park and our team is running on June 10th. Given that I recently ran an 18:04 5k (w/ 5:49 splits), I assumed that I would be at the head of the pack when confronted with a bunch of corporate joggers. Boy was I wrong.
I forgot that the New York business community skews very Type A, and therefore highly competitive. Here are the Top 5 Male finishing times from 2008…
| MENS RESULTS | |||
| Place | Name | Time | Company |
| 1 | Matthew Forys | 17:25 | BLACKROCK |
| 2 | Karl Dusen | 17:28 | AIG INVESTMENTS |
| 3 | Francis Corrigan | 17:30 | THOMSON REUTERS |
| 4 | Ryan Hays | 17:36 | LEVY & HALPERIN |
| 5 | Ben Reynolds | 17:42 | MERRILL LYNCH & CO. |
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