Running Daily

It’s about time. I am finally getting to where it’s not painful to run on the trails. Today I ran seven miles without much of any pain around my knees. After five miles without blips in the radar I pushed the last two miles at an 8:15 minute mile pace. I ended up running the seven in just under 1:10.

It felt good being out there without pain. I attribute a lot of that to the advice of my friend and fellow running club member, JC. He showed me some yoga type stretches that dramatically improved the ease of his running.

• My knee has been injured but it’s starting to feel a little better. I shouldn’t say my knee because that sounds scary. It could be it band. #

I went out this evening after work and ran 7 miles on the trails. It felt alright but there was certainly some lingering pain in the IT Band area. I’ve started to incorporate some different stretches before and after runs along with more cross training. I’m hoping that all of this creates a situation where my body can correct itself. It sure felt good to be out in nature again for a little over an hour.

I’m glad that I haven’t been injured often because this recent injury sucks. I’m still feeling a hint of pain after 20-30 minutes of running, so I am really limiting myself on what I’ll do. Yesterday I ran 3 miles which I’ll do again today. I’m also going to bike about 8 miles on the trails. That’ll be enough for me.

Weekend was good with swimming in the gulf and fresh seafood.

I’m still recovering from the injury so the past couple days have been workouts of a different sort. I went to the trails and scretched through them on my bike. I forgot how much I enjoy going out there and riding. I am going to check out a few other trails on the bike for fun.

Today I went to the track and ran some speed drills. I repeated 800s until I was nearly dizzy. It’s good to feel workout pain because then I can reward myself with Mexican food.

Members of the Dallas Running Club have set up a program where they sponsor Marines abroad in their running. It sounds like a pretty good plan where they assist other runners and connect them to a broader running community.

The plan is to have each Marine assigned a Dallas running buddy, who will communicate long distance, offering marathon training tips, accountability and encouragement leading up to the club’s DRC Half in November. Wherever the troops happen to be the day of the race, they’ll set up a 13.1-mile course and, hopefully, run it simultaneously.

This is one of the things that running clubs should strive to do — connect with other runners and would be runners in their community. Just because someone is abroad serving for our country doesn’t exclude them from being in our community.