I’ve accepted the fact that at this point, i’m not sure when marathon training will start up again. My back feels a little better today than it did yesterday and I was able to return to work. It still hurts slightly when I move around, but its not excruciating like it was (although there are […]

I have finally learned my lesson about running while injured (especially with a back injury), DON’T DO IT! If you read through my post yesterday, you’ll see I struggled through a 12.34 miler, with my back not feeling great, and ended up at the hospital last night. It wasn’t in direct relation to the run, […]

As to be expected again, I did my normal 12 mile medium long run today as scheduled, and did fine for the first 7 miles or so until my back started to hurt. I did run through the pain, although I shouldn’t have (note that it didn’t hurt as bad as it did on Thursday, […]

As to be expected, I headed out today for my 4 mile recovery run on Pfitz’s plan, and surprisingly, things went well. I have to say that I really beat myself up good in that race, I am having some left hamstring pain (not pulled), but very very sore, as well as pain in my […]

Well, after sleeping with the muscle strain in my back, I have accepted the fact that i’m going to be out of action for a least a few days, therefore I have to rethink the training for the spring marathon. I know this is only a muscle strain, so I know it will heal, but […]

I spent the first part of my Thanksgiving day running the 97th annual Run for the Diamonds in Berwick, and despite the weather, it was an okay run. I regret to say that I have pulled a muscle in my back (i believe), but the funniest part is, I don’t even know how I did […]

Well, i’m proud to say that I inadvertently cut my first training run short. I was supposed to do 7 miles with 10x100m strides, and I only did 6.15 miles with the strides. I took one of my regular routes here from work, and added the strides throughout the course, and didn’t make up for […]

It doesn’t seem so long ago that I was training for Steamtown, but i’m happy to be back in training again. I like to have the structure that I get when I do this. I unfortunately put a few pounds on in the past 6 weeks, my starting weight for this training session is 200 […]

I had a good 10 miler today, my foot didn’t bother me much, and I celebrated the last non-training long run. It was kind of cool out, but I wore my new thermal top from Hind, and it works great, I actually overdressed as normal (3 layers on top), so I ended up being warm […]

I’ve completed the first 4-day running cycle that i’ve had in a week and a half due to the neuroma in my foot. The foot pain hasn’t been as bad, the metatarsal pads do work well, although I am still icing it, using NAID’s and making some slight adjustments to my training. I expect to […]