04-30-2011 Get in Gear Half Marathon

My goal was to negative split the race and still have something left for the Minnetonka Half tomorrow morning. I think I did it. It was cold and raining realllly hard. Like a downpour the whole time and winds were 20-30 MPH. Jason would refer to it as miserable. I like it and I think I run better in the rain, except for the blisters that you get from running in wet shoes. I am doing emergency treatment on them to make sure they are ready for the morning. Tomorrows race will feature snow showers in addition to a 20-30 mph West wind, that the first 7 miles of the course runs straight in to. Unfortunately the course never gets a wind advantage because it is a point to point that goes West and then South.



Results link. 81st out of 1021 overall. The race details are pretty cool, you can kinda see how I moved up as the race progressed. I actually beat me last Road half marathon, capital city in 2009 (by 3 seconds) and there was a lot more elevation change in this race.

04-26-2011 Run

04-24-2011 Run

Finally a nice day!!

I was really hoping that it would start getting nice out before I have to leave. I at least hoped that I would see a leaf but on a tree, that probably won't happen. It was really nice today though.

04-22-2011 Run

04-20-2011 Run

Saw Doc today, he claims that most likely I need two procedures done. An adducter release, and Sports Hernia surgery. Both are relatively simple procedures. The sports hernia is basically grafting mesh onto a tear that I have. The one that scares me is the adducter release, they cut the tendon off of the bone where it meets the groin. Apparently a lot of athletes including high level runners have it done and the success rate is over 95%. It just freaks me out to have a tendon "released". Recovery time is about 6 to 8 weeks, so not really that bad. I have to run really hard this week, to try and get it flared up really bad so I can then go back to see him next Wednesday for a final diagnosis.

If all goes well, I might be able to have the surgery done before I go back to Oregon so I can get on the road to recovery.

04-19-2011 Run

Tomorrow the big day!! (I go see the Surgeon) Had to do a couple of speed bursts to ensure that I am in sufficient pain tomorrow.

04-17-2011 Run (MudBall Classic)

This was a fun race, that was probably easily winnable given the appropriate effort. It was an easy course for a trail run, they could have made it much much tougher, they kind of skirted around all of the big hills and kept the course on big easy trails. I need to start my own race in there. It would have be a 5k with 2000' of vertical.

Downtown popping over the lakes and trees.

And Begin.

For a mudball classic there really wasn't very much mud. There was one really muddy spot that got everyone really good. But the rest of it was just a nice little trail run. There is a pretty tough trail half marathon here in September that I would like to do.