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Hot day for a run!

Wow, what a demoralizing and inspiring run.  I didn’t get my “long run” in yesterday due to deciding to play Disc Golf at Legion Park with my son Conor instead.  Disc golf with the kids is always good for karma.

So tonight I ran it at 6:00 PM.  I used mapmyrun.com to plot out a 3 mile loop starting and ending at the end of my block.  Started out OK, at the 2 mile point I was feeling very fatigued.  When I hit the point I was supposed to make a right turn I mistook my planning and decided to go around the block to the left instead.  (Marion has a lot of streets that don’t go through and I forgot that I was going to just run 28th ave instead of 29th.)  So at what I though was 2.75 miles (38 minutes) I was really sucking wind on an 8 minute climb up a demoralizing hill.  I made it up the hill even tho I was telling myself the whole time that I’d never make 13.1 by September 20.  I managed to push it at a dead run for the last 2 blocks to my finish point at 43 minutes.  I wasn’t watching my watch too closely and I assumed it was closer to 50 minutes.  After getting home I re-mapped the route I actually ran it and it was closer to 3.33 miles in 43 minutes.  Not great by a long shot but WAY better than I thought.  And I hit 3 miles in 38 minutes.  So while slow my pace is getting faster.  Even with that nasty hill.  THEN I looked at the thermometer and saw that it was between 83 and 84 degrees out.  No wonder I am so wasted!

I went from thinking there was no way I’d make it 4 miles next Sunday to figuring out that I was that extra 1/3 mile closer to that distance already tonight!  Great!

Next week I’m visiting Boston for work.  Going to have to figure out if there is anywhere easy to get in 40 minutes of running near Faneiul Hall.

how do I measure my training runs?

How should I measure my training?

Miles?

Minutes?

Gnats Inhaled?

Philadelphia Distance Classic

I’ve been needing motivation to get back in shape.  As some of you know my son Cael has been diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome.  The University of Iowa Children’s Hospital has been very good at helping us figure out what this means and what we can do to help Cael excel in school.

Many of the materials we have been able to use and supply to the school are published by the National Tourette Syndrome Association.

I was browsing their web site and saw a link to Team TSA and their fundraising at the Philadelphia Distance Classic.

So, I’m going to train for it and do it.  Now I’m looking for donations to Team TSA!

Please go here and donate!  http://www.active.com/donate/philly09/albinger

Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month

Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month

May 15 to June 15

http://www.tsa-usa.org/news/0507Awareness35th.html

http://www.classperformance.com/2009/05/tourette-syndrome-awareness-month-may-15th-june-15th/

http://www.tsa-usa.org

additionally I’ve been a bump on a log and need an event to train for.  Perhaps this:

http://www.tsa-usa.org/DonateParticipate/marathon/PhillyInfo2009.pdf

Catharsis

It was time to redo things here.

I used to blog about wine now that can be found at http://www.offthecork.com

I used to blog about photography now that can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/aalbinger

I used to post family stuff and snarky comments now that can be cound at http://www.facebook.com/

That just leaves exerise.  I’ve been on again, off again with exercise since my health problems late last summer.  As of tonight “1″.

-Andrew