This past Saturday I forgot my cycling shoes. Mind you I didn't forget the bike, the clothes or the rider just the shoes. After saying a few choice words of unhappiness I decided to do the next best thing. See just how far it is one point of the lake to the other point of the lake. Being White Rock and being me starting from my car and ending at my car. Just in case you were wondering it is 9 miles and pretty close to being exactly 9 at that as well. I haven't ran that far on any one run since Cowtown Marathon and the summer of the back issues.
Well over the last month or so I have been aggressively taking cryo and using the machine that they have to have adjust the back. It didn't work at first but then again nothing ever just starts solving a problem. It takes time and patience to see results. I am starting to see my mileage increase with every run and I am thinking of doing to full marathon again before the year is over. Ask me that question in July and August and I would have said a hell no to any thought of a marathon again. But now I am already planning on two halfs before my birthday (don't ask me when that is) and a goal of a full in December.
So as I was running I noticed that I was sore but not in the back. I am sore due to lack of distance in my training but I went the full 9 miles without any issues with the back. That brings me a good nice smile to my face. I truly thought that I would be limited to be just an average runner with little to no chance of actually doing anymore long distance runs. NO WAIT. I did run 9 miles since Cowtown. How could I have forgotten Too Hot to Handle. I mean yes that was a race I would like to forget don't get me wrong but the distance still counts. And that was a 15k so that was actually longer than my 9 mile run this past Saturday which almost makes this blog pointless. Darn it. But I will continue as if that race never happened in order to keep this blog having some significance.
I have the Dam Half in Lewisville in a couple of weeks and hopefully through my training I will be ready for that. I know that this past Saturday my pace is extremely way off what I use to run. I believe that at the 6.5 point I would have been on pace to finish a half in about 2:40 which would not only be my slowest half ever but by almost 20 to 25 minutes. And to think that my best half time came during the BCS Marathon when I ran the 13.1 in a little under 2 hours. Like 1:59:59 or something like that but hey it still counts as under 2. Of course after those first 13.1 everything went downhill like a chubby kid rolling down a mountain. It was fast and painful and when I eat brownies on the course and wish I had more of them to eat yes you know I had lost my mind at that point. So anyway like an ADD kid I am off the subject and need to get back on subject. It was a fun Saturday for me seeing myself run that far without any back issues. It was great to know that I am getting back being an average runner who wishes he was as fast as Jay. I got a few days off this week and will be running Katy Trail tomorrow for sure during the hot day. Because nothing says running in Texas like running when it is hot outside. But I do love running in the heat. It helps me to lose those few extra pounds that refuse to leave my body.
Off to the State Fair and Katy Trail tomorrow. I still owe my blog the results of my last two Denton tri's. I just keep not wanting to review them but it is coming soon.
