Living in Mukilteo for 4 years and never knowing about the trails at Japanese Gulch is embarrassing for self defined trail runner. Embarrassment aside, I am so happy to be introduced to the trails right here in my backyard. Once again the Downsound Racing connection pays off big. Bob from the group took me out this morning for the first half of his 2 plus hour run on the trails. I managed to keep up with him for the loop, if I had to guess my distance I would have said about 7 miles…..but thanks to my new Garmin 405 I know the truth, I ran under 6! Sometimes the truth really hurts. But wow look at the elevation gain and loss that’s good to see!
Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 09/20/2008
- Time: 07:00:00
- Total Time: 1:09:02.00
- Average Heart rate: 143
- Distance: 5.85 miles
- Average Pace: 11:48.66/mile
- Ascent: 3,126 ft
- Descent: 3,105 ft
It’s official, I am back in! Entries to last years starters were sent out in an email Monday and I confirmed my spot. This morning on my run I thought if 40 minutes is this tough how can I run for 24 hours? But I know I can do it and I have a long time to bring my fitness back however slowly I must. I have a lot of muscle soreness, sadly, from my short run earlier this week, more importantly no knee pain today! Maybe just maybe my problem was an overuse injury and I have let the body take of itself and heal over the last 7 weeks.
Met up with the Down Sound Racers this morning some of them did the Black Diamond Tri this weekend. The race reports were pretty rough. These are true Iron men, extremely talented athletes and they had some troubles out there. It must be one tough course. Even though I am slow and sucking air, they welcomed me back graciously, love our community. Now they all begin training for their Ironman next June, it is going to be a fun 9 months!
Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 09/17/2008
- Time: 06:00:00
- Total Time: 00:39:59.00
- Average Heart rate: 166
- Max Heart rate: 179
- Calories: 538
- Distance: 4.76 miles
- Average Pace: 8:24.2/mile
- Ascent: 800 ft
- Descent: 800 ft
Love this irony….. I am scheduled to have surgery for a meniscus repair on the day I turn 40! I met with Dr. Mandt today, he has excellent credentials especially for knee injuries. He has been the team doctor for the US ski team, so I am in very good hands.
His diagnosis is a lateral meniscus tear. Unfortunately the location of the tear is not in the “normal” place one experiences a tear so a easy clean it up approach is not going to work. He will need to suture the tear back together which means I am on crutches for 6 -8 weeks. The good news is the damaged meniscus is in the outer portion, this is the only part that has a decent blood supply so a complete healing is possible.
There is outside chance that since the tear is n the location with blood supply that it may be healing on its own. I have not run a step since bailing out at mile 27 in my race 17 days ago. I will work on my recovery and maybe just maybe over the next 21 days enough healing will occur that the surgical option is set aside.
Happy birthday!!! SURPRISE
Met up with the Down Sound Racing group last night for a full moon escapade. 7 of them were in the Serene Lake at 9:00 for a mile swim. I don’t swim especially in open water especially at night, so I met them on the shore. 4 of them came on the run to complete there night time brick. Matt, straight from the airport came for the running portion. So 6 of us strapped on our headlamps and fired up the flashlights and headed out.
I thought maybe since they had just come off a long swim, I might be able to keep up with the group. They were chatting easily at this sub 8 minute pace, while I was gasping for air. I had one of those runs were nothing felt smooth or right. It could be that my normal bedtime is 9:00. However, it was way fun to run in the dark amongst the safety of 5 ironman types.
On a side note I tested out my Fenix L2D high tech flashlight totally spectacular flashlight! We could see for days with this thing. I highly recommend one not only for running but any night time activity, I think I will buy at least one more.
All in all I am glad to have run and happy to have this group of insane ultra athletes around to push my limits.
Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 07/18/2008
- Time: 22:00:00
- Total Time: 00:41:00.00
- Distance: 5.2 miles
- Average Pace: 7:53.06/mile
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