Sunday 8-23 Long; ~14 miles

Left around 7:45...already getting hot. Ran ok for the most part, a little sluggish here and there. No real pain, gait was good in the old Mizunos. Final hill up South Boulder to Mcaslin a bit rough. Probably had more miles had I taken another gel. One full pack of the Chomps with about 26 onces of water total.

Switched back to Running Ahead from Connect.Garmin. Garmin is just SOOO slow whereas Running Ahead has all of the functionality including mapping and elevation with direct integration with the Forerunner. Works great!

Ran in the Precisions 8's...they are over 1 1/2 years old. Pretty much forefoot the whole way with no pain on tinges anywhere. Probably going to shoot for 1000+ in these and may even alternate with my original pair of Precisions (red). They are as thin as racing flats and fit me great. I can't seem to get the LunaRacers to NOT give me blisters on the outsides of my big toes. Will use these for shorter races (10K and less) and maybe some tempo runs. Precisions for everything else.

Great post from Tony here on his shoe progression. Bummed for his race yesterday as I was looking forward to him getting the record which could have motivated Carpenter for a repeat visit. May want to check out the new NB trail runners he helped design.

Signed up for the Breck Crest Half Yesterday. Getting Psyched.

A run I want to do one of these days....

Sunday 7-05-2009

Long run in Chicago for 15.36. Ran the first 7.6 or so with Katie at an 11 pace with less than a 130 HR. Then did another 7.6 in 8:03 or so for a HR of 162. First 7 was great, last was quite a bit harder...have not run this long since the Denver Marathon...the road is hard for sure. Spent almost 2:20 on mostly pavement...miss the trails, but glad to get some real miles.


Not much pain, gait was good with no real issues of concern. Need to keep these long ones in the program to build endurance.