Getting some GU

I may actually get some GU to sample. While I haven't from Gu yet, In a comment on my last post Devon who works for a company that has GU has a client offered to send me some GU Roctane. Hey I love the freebies. Heck I walk around the marathon expos twice to make sure I didn't miss any. I wonder how she found my blog? I will wait and see when this GU shows up. I think I need some soon so the timing is almost perfect. I think good things are starting to happen. (I can dream)

Back at work

Yes Im back to work. What a place laid off to overtime in a day. I think they waited too long to call people back and now their behind. After 5 weeks off its hard to really care that much. Hey what if me and the other welder had found other jobs? To be honest it wont surprise me if we get laid off again in a couple weeks.



Any ways back to important stuff. Running! Or lack of it. I did run yesterday, did a 4.5 miler with 15 minutes at tempo pace. I am sticking to my plan only going to run 4 days this week. The foot and shin weren't has bad today but continuing to ice them and cut back this week. Tomorrow I plan to get a run in of some sort. I think I will see how it feels and go from there. Might just be an easy run or a fartlek or a tough hill run. Basically will see how my foot/shin are feeling.

I recently applied to GU for sponsorship. You would think they could at least email back an standard rejection letter. Is that too much to ask? I think I would be a good promoter for them. I would obviously promote them on my blog. Plus if I wore their log on my shirt while marathoning it would be out there longer, much longer then if they got some elite runner or evena Boston Qualifier to wear it. Well I will give them a few more days, maybe they got alot to go thru. Plus I will mostly be getting more GU for my long run this weekend.

If anyone out there needs or wants someone to help promote your product Im willing to be a sponsored runner. Yes I will turn pro. Even if I haven't tryed the product I will. Ok I will actually try it and post a fair and honest (wink, wink) assesment of it. Ok now back to your regularly scheduled blogging.

Rest day

Nothing new on the running front. I took a rest day. It was actually a planned rest day. But due to shin pain and foot pain I have decided (dont hold your breath on this one) to take a couple extra days off. I still want to run at least 4 days this week. The plan is 6 days but I think I need to get this doing better. Hoping a couple weeks of cutting back wont hurt me much.

In other news I had good news. I think. I got called back to work. For how long who knows but I go back tomorrow morning. So how does this work thing go again??? Hopefully its like riding a bike and comes back to me. Wait do I know how to ride a bike? I dont remember.

Twist and Shout, crash and burn

I got up to meet Rick for our 15 mile long run according to the training plan by Dean Karnazes. So I got there a few minutes early. It was 22*F and windy and snow with some good slush on the roads. Wonderful. We had some others joining us for the run. Bob showed up no Len. He was up to late he says watching the Pavlik fight. Another guy joined us I had seen him a couple other runs. Him and Bob ran the first 3.5 miles with us and called it a day. If only to be them.

Me and Rick continued on. The foot wasnt hurting too bad. The shin splint became noticable but not too bad. It's in same spot has last year so hoping a few extra rest days over the next couple weeks will help it. I trying some things, relaced shoes differently, icing more, different stretches. Actually just stretching in general might be a help.

Around mile 9ish I took a GU Energy and drank some more water. We really weren't pushing the pace but with the cold and wind made it a little tougher. Then while running along lake Newport the wind picked up. Off the lake the wind seems to be even colder and stronger. Shortly after this was when the roof fell in. It was between miles 12 and 13 I just felt hungry and suddenly had no energy. So I was just trying to keep moving. I had no choice but to finish, and ran has much of it has I could. I was wet and cold so being out there longer would make it worse.

I got it done. I actually felt worse then 20 milers I had done in the past. Not sure exactly what happened but maybe I over did it this week. The plan stepped up this week, added intervals on Thursday plus longer long run. Also I did 8 on Saturday instead of 5. Total weekly mileage was good at 41.5 miles. Solid week for me. Didn't get the best night of sleep either. Hopefully next week's planned 17 miler will go better.

Here's how next week should look im sure it will vary a little
Mon Rest
Tue Tempo 15 minutes
Wed 5 miles easy
THU Intervals 5x800m @ 5K pace
Fri 6 miles easy
Sat 5 miles easy
Sun 17 miles long run.

Boredom

It's 9:08 am and im already bored for the day. I have taken kids to school, wife to work, playing on twitter, played party poker.net tourny and contemplating a nap already. Im supposed to meet Rick at 4:30 for a run so not doing that this morning. Maybe I should call work and see when I can expect to get called back or if. Getting old being off without money.

I relaced my shoes yesterday, just the right shoe. I been having a foot problem, hurting on the top of foot where the arch is highest. upping mileage lately has irratated it worse. Not having much luck finding a solution so far. So trying this new lacing method where they go straight across and dont cross over each other. So it should widen the shoe plus less pressure on top of arch since they dont criss cross. Giving it some time to see if it helps.

This week's plan

After I met my buddy Bobo for a run this morning im already variating from my plan. We were going to run some trails but after the first short trail we decided the snow made it too slippery. So after that we stuck to the roads and got in about 5 miles.

Now here's what the plan is supposed to be.

Mon - rest
Tue - tempo 12 minutes
Wed - 6 miles
Thr - Intervals 4x800
Fri - 6 miles
Sat - 5 miles
sun - Long 15 miles

Hopefully I will get in all the miles. Already got 5 miles in so probably take a rest day later in week. See how the week goes. The double up on speed work worries me a little. I suppose I wont go overboard running the tempo run but I haven't done any intervals since........since......... well must of been some time. I remember doing them. November?? does that sound right. Well lets see how Thursday goes.

Unlucky 13 miler

Orginally I planned to run with my training partner Rick. Then he said him and "the Chick" were going to his sisters place in Baltimore. Then called me Friday evening and said he was in for the long run Sunday. "The Chick" got sick. I was going to run it Saturday but Sunday was better for us. Then this morning he called and he had a sinus headache. So I went to the park where my 13 miler was planned out.
I had my MP3 player with me and listened to several podcasts along the way. Its one way to go from New England to Texas to England back to New England. In other words listened to Runrunlive, Rundigger, Running with the Reaper and part of a 4 feet running episode I had listened to before.
I got the run done and got back to where the Road Runners club was meeting today. They were doing a sweethearts picnic or something. I guess not many showed up today. I dont know why, usually when they have food they get a good crowd. And for February it wasnt a bad day. A little cold in mid 20's but not windy or snowing or rain. I went inside to say hi to a few and pass out a couple Sponge Bob suckers I had. Only 2 woman there so I still got lot of suckers. Wilma said it was her first piece of valentine candy. Not sure to feel good about it or like a bad influence. Either way she seemed happy. Then they dumped some leftovers on me and I was out of there.

All for now.

Double posts

I just realized how dumb I am. I hit compose instead of edit html tab and now I can see which picture is where. THat will make it easier to post pictures. I think.

Now the reason for second post isnt to eloborate on my lack of intelligence but since I ran twice today I decided to post twice. Got a phone call from a buddy looking for someone to run with, so I went and did 3 miles with him. 8.7 for the day.

Thrusday

Still working on this picture thing. Im fine to add one at time but they dont seem to go in order I want. I took this at Mill Creek park today. This waterfall was all ice last time, now was flowing crazy, lucky there wasnt flooding in area after all the snow melted and the rain we got. All for now.