11-2-13 My wife says I am amazing! Since I did run 16 miles

Scheduled Miles: 34
Actual Distance: 33.54
RPE: 4.125
Miles on Black Torins: 173.76
Miles on Blue Torins: 97.93

Have you ever said to yourself, "I wish I were only running 14 miles not 16..." Well I can add that to my list of crazy that I have developed since I started running. I went back and looked at some of my running entries from just before summer started a couple of days ago, and looked at the distances I was running. My short runs are 5 miles, and I about died doing 5 miles when I first ran it. Now I run 5 miles easily, instead of these ideas of walking then running then walking, as a matter of fact I can now run a lot more. My view of treadmills have changed (don't like them) accept for speed training.

So I ran a total of 16+ miles today, it was exciting to have that as my new max distance. By the time I got to mile 12.5 I was so spent physically I couldn't run anymore. At mile 8 my IT band started bothering me, then the knee pain came, but I kept trying to change form to what I was shown in my gate analysis. I was able to run 2 miles down hill at that point without my IT band flaring up until my form got sloppy.

The end of the run was really difficult, my IT band was fine when I stuck to the correct form, but my legs were so tired by the end of my run. Changing form is exhausting. But what's more exhausting is not fueling the body correctly. Last night I ate a bunch of junk food, and had pizza (that was all meat and cheese). For breakfast I had Oreo's, a Chobani yogurt and a cup of milk. The rest of the week I fueled correctly, I just didn't go into today with the correct fueling. I am making the adjustment to fuel like I will the day before the marathon (I only have 5 Fridays until it's the day before). So it will be rice, veggies, meat (curry or Cafe Rio salad) for a late lunch, then snack the rest of the day.

I seriously considered changing my marathon to the half marathon and just waiting until SLC marathon to run my big race. But that's not happening, I am running the tri-state marathon, finishing it, and getting a medal!

Well with all that said, until next time,
-Riley


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