9-30-13 Stretch or PAIN!!!


Yesterday was a very hard day, today was just as painful until I started to stretch out my quads, then running this evening got rid of the remainder of the pain. I am doing much better now. I have six miles to run in the morning still, and am trying to figure out when I will doing it. I am feeling so much better now than I was 2 hours ago.

When I was teaching Karate I had students who complained about experiencing pains a day or two after a workout (I also have a wife who had the same issue when she did karate). My answer to them was always the same, "Repeat some of the workout you did to cause the pain you feel." Well I get my come-up-ins, my wife said to me yesterday. "Why don't you try doing some of the work out you did to cause the pain..." Yeah I was feeling pretty pathetic after that, receiving advice that I had given so many times before. So tonight I got to do what I needed and rework the muscles that were bothering me.

Overall I didn't think I would finish my run tonight. I started at a 11:30 pace and my body didn't want to cooperate with me, so I walked a half mile. I then picked up and ran, gradually increasing my speed as I went. I made my consistent time at just under 14 minutes per mile. I have been doing research and found out the way to get better times is... wait for it... run faster in your training, for as long as possible. After all the ideas on how to get a better time, I watched a bunch of You Tube videos and found out Fartlek's are the best tool. But another great tool is running harder in 2-3 workouts per week. So I decided my short runs are going to be my more intense runs. I want to improve the speed I am running at (but not too fast so as to avoid hurting myself) so I think this will work. After I run my marathon I am going to work on bumping my speed more.

If anyone has suggestions I would appreciate hearing them in regards to trainings.

Until tomorrow...
-Riley

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