Better just in time

Well I finally got my orthodics adjusted this week, and it's about time. I had been suffering with a variety of minor ailments to me feet, knees, legs and hip, mostly on the left side, that I attribute to A) shoes getting old and B) inserts needed to be adjusted. Luckily my podiatrist has a son that plays soccer w/ Mike, so I gave them to him at the soccer game on Sunday, and had them back on Tuesday. Yesterday when I went out, it seemed like the change was really a lot. I didn't feel comfortable, so I stopped after 1/2 mile and walked home. Then I spent the day walking with the inserts in my work shoes to get used to it before running. This morning I ran 7 miles and everything felt fine.

2nd, I got my new watch yesterday, and was excited about running with it for the 1st time in 2 weeks this morning. Unfortunately, the battery appeared to die, so I had no mile splits. I think its just the indiglo light doesn't work well, and if you try to do the stopwatch while the light's engaged, it sucks it down, b/c the watch came back after a while, and is working fine right now. If worse comes to worse, I'll just by a watch battery.

So my running for the past week was like this:

4/12 - 7 mile fartlek run
4/13 - 5 easy miles
4/14 - off
4/15 - 6.6 easy miles
4/16 - 7.7 easy
4/17 - 9 miles with a lot of tempo surges
4/18 - off
4/19 - 7.1 miles

Oh, Mike had his 1st track meet on Tuesday. He ran the 400 in the distance medley relay, and did very well, running a 58.9 leg, which is his best time so far. They got 3rd as a relay team, and the team won the meet! He runs another 400 on a relay tommorow, but I'll be missing it, b/c megan has a meet at the same time. She's running the 800 and the 400 in relays at a Boy-Girl team event. They should do pretty well. It'll be fun to watch, and I promised to behave!

Been a while...

Last week I was traveling to the Twin Cities area on business, and had my wife and daughter with me who went to the Mall of America. It was 13 degrees both mornings we were up there. One day I ran on the treadmill in the Hotel, the other day I didn't run. I forgot how much I really don't like running on a treadmill. Adding insult to injury was jumping in the pool after my run, and forgetting that my watch was on. So now my battery fried, and a new battery won't bring it back to life. So I bought the same watch I had on ebay for $19, or $12 less than I could get it at Wal-Mart. Still waiting to get it.

So my runs this week have had the interesting phenomenon of running by feel, and estimating pace. I really didn't realize what a slave I was to the watch. Every time I'd get to a marker I would either look to my wrist or make an attempt to catch the split where the imaginary watch was. Either I am a creature of habit or a bit pathetic. Probably both.

On top of all that, we go 3-4 inches of snow yesterday. My son's 1st track meet was cancelled today, and his soccer games this weekend don't look too good at the moment. I am hoping this disappears quickly, b/c I'd like to start some regimented training - I will as soon as I get my watch....