Thursday, September 8, 2011

Labory Day half, new shoes, day off running

How long should you wear your shoes? My running journal made by Runner's World says 200 miles, the guy at the shoe store said about 400, (wow weird- the running journal is trying to sell even more shoes than the shoe salesman) and I say about 1200. I know because I wore my current pair about 1250 miles and then my feet started to hurt at around 1230 ish, when I was running the Labor Day half marathon which was laborfull! My advice- don't listen to any of those people, just wear your shoes until right before your feet hurt.

Old shoes

my pumped up kicks


At the labor day half I did not do great, which is great because I was not supposed to do great, it was also however not supposed to be the most horrible thing you'd do in along time which it was. ( or maybe it was supposed to be?) Joel said to run a relaxedish 1:29-1:33, which by the way if 1:29 was relaxed I should have a new PR by now! but anyway, you know hard, but not hard. Somehow I managed to get even slower than those times and it was hard. I'm going to blame the sun, which was out, clearly not what the course designers had in mind as they designed this 0% shaded course. It was probably in the upper 70s out when I finished and to me that felt like running through hell. After the race Joel made me do a tempo for 10-40 minutes, but ideally he wanted me to pick the 40 option which I only picked the 15. But it was HARD to run a tempo after that slurpee they gave me at the finish line which after running through hell there was no way in hell I was going to turn down, haha, sorry. I felt a little better when I saw all the results and they were all much slower than last years. Also they break it down into age groups but way more than the average race does. They let you see results by just 17 yr olds, just 18 yr olds, 22 yr olds, 39 yr olds, 40,41, etc. I was second for all 25 yr olds and first woman and only one girl had beat me who was younger than me, 24, even though I ran a kinda sucko 1:35:03. It was just an old person's race. Not that there weren't kids, especially at the beginning, like the little boy I passed at four miles who turned to confide in me "I am sooo dead!" Aww, I hope he finished, good luck little boy, may you have many, many half marathons before you!

Yesterday my foot and calf were hurting from my 1250 miles old shoes so Joel told me to take the day off! Since I didn't have to work either there were suddenly hours in the day. I could have fun! Except for push up sit up time of course. ( why don't abs ever get injured?) It was a strange experience but one I'd like to repeat again sometime. But not soon, because as soon as I take even like 3 days off my body gets all rusty and acts like it doesn't run very well for weeks and weeks! And that's just what I need in the 50k to make it even harder. It seems like if I work very hard 95% of the time and 5% of the time am injured and not running my body will only remember the 5%. Anyone else feel like that?

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