My Calves Are Burning
No joke, my calves are on fire due to my fourth day out of the last five that I have run three miles.
I’ve finally learned how to run properly for the entire duration of the run (flat-footed = WRONG), and as a result I’m really feeling the burn below the knees. It’s a pain I’m gonna get used to, and it’s one that I welcome because as weird as this sounds, it makes me concentrate on it more than anything else — such as breathing or those nasty sideaches I get midway through the run.
Be proud of me, I ran 13 miles this week. I feel good and I’m going to try to do this every day.
I have a special event to attend tomorrow, and it’s being held in Gresham — clear other side of Portland, but the cool thing is I can ride MAX from the Fair Complex/Airport station through downtown, out to Gresham on the blue line. I think it may take an hour and a half, but I don’t want to drive. A quarter tank of gas would cost me $10 or so, as opposed to a day pass on the MAX being $4. I’m all for saving $6.
Only reason I’m still awake right now is that I have clothes in the dryer. In about twenty minutes I’ll be out.
4 Comments, Comment or Ping
Jason
I love running too. For some reason though a treadmill just doesn’t cut it. For me to run two miles in 14:00 on a treadmill is nothing, but out on the road, for me to run it in the same time just about kills me. My best two miler was 13:30, but that was a year ago. Now I’m mid fourteens, and my four miler is about 32 flat. I need to get back to running distance if I’m ever going to run the Baton Death March! 24 miles will be a killer!
Also, I notice that when I run and start hurting, I run faster and the pain goes away. I guess they call it “runners high,” and it is befitting. After a good hard run I feel I can take on the world!
-Jas
Aug 5th, 2007
Chris
Make it a personal goal to beat my best ever time of 10:52 in the 2-miler. I set that personal best in 2004 when I was stationed in the Azores.
I know you can do it, so it’s just a matter of when.
Aug 5th, 2007
Jason
Heh heh heh. No thanks, I’m satisfied with trying to run under thirteen. My one miler best is 5:10 and it hurt!
Aug 6th, 2007
Jason
Actually, it was 5:40, my bad! But it was under six and I was freaking out!
Aug 6th, 2007
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