September 16, 2006 by Brad.

  Today i had a baseball game.  My team is the texas rangers.  We won 21 to 11.  WOOT WOOT.

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September 16, 2006 by jon.

Well I got my 18 miles in today but it was not fun. I ran along the Fox river. I ran a route that did a 10 mile loop and then an 8 mile loop so I could replenish at the car. I’ve run the 10 mile loop previously and the 8 mile was just an extension of my 6 miles a few weeks ago. No problem right? Wrong.

For whatever reason I got really tired starting around mile 8 or 9. I was really dragging. I made it back to my car at mile 10 and took in a Cliff Shot hoping for some more energy. It helped a bit but another 2 or 3 miles down the road I had to change my running plan. Normally I run for 8 minutes and then walk for 1. That stopped working so I started running for 3 minutes and walking for 1.

Even with changing up the timing I was still tired. At about mile 15 I ended up walking for about 5 minutes to get back some strength. After that, the 3/1 ratio seemed to work and I finished. It was a difficult run but again, it’s done. 29.5 miles this week and I’m at 468 for the year.

When I ran 16 miles, I did it in 2:43. Today’s 18 miles was 3:13. 30 minutes more for adding 2 miles. Obviously something is up. The week I ran 16 miles, I ended up taking a few days off due to a sore throat and sore shins. Maybe the extra rest helped. I’ll have to think on that one.

Kala did her best to help by making me pasta the night before, but later for desert, I had ice cream. That probably was not a good idea.

The long and short of it is that I got the long run done and I’m ready for a step back week. I’ll rest up a couple of days and run again.

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