30+ DRC 360

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30+ DRC 360. 30+ Daily Run Challenge: Day 360

I'm a week away from completing a full year of running every day. I'll reminisce about that later.

I haven't posted on here for a while, about three weeks. Not much has happened in those weeks. My mid-week long runs have been decent but have been taking a nose dive as far as comfort level. I was supposed to have had an 8 miler on the 12, but ended up short for the same reason.

So I've been wondering about why my longer runs have been getting less comfortable.

When I first started this "real" training, I had been including the Fitocracy Challenges you'd see posted on my DailyMile updates if you ever stalked me there (it's cool, at least I'm getting some attention). I continued with it for a while But then being the lazy bastard I am, I listened to some bad advice.

I was told that since I was running every day anyway, there was no real need to keep up with extra stuff. Focus on the running. I was like, "COOL! Sounds good to me!"

Bad move. As I've said, my running comfort has gotten worse since then and this last week has been proof of that.

If I could describe what my comfort level looks like over the past couple of weeks it'd be an airplane wing:

Starting from the left that rise up to that red spot at the top of the wing, that's my first 8 mile run. I was ecstatic with that run. I stopped the crosstraining after that run. A bit further down to the right of that red spot would be my next few weeks of runs. Up until this last Sunday when I had a bad 8 mile run that I FOUGHT not to stop on.

I was pretty much decided to continue with the crosstraining after that run. My midweek longish run last Wednesday was a clue as to how I was going to struggle with Sunday. My pace was okay, but I was kinda fighting that one too. The Sunday long run on the 19th was really bad! I didn't even run the 8 miles. Heck, not even 7 that day. And I WALKED most of the last two miles!

So I started the crosstraining again yesterday. And I'm sore. I don't think it helped any that I ran the Shitty Work Trail, either. Stupid hills kick my ass. But I'm going to have to start looking at this as a good thing. I learned something about myself and what I need to do to improve.

On another note, last week on Facebook, the Salinas Valley Half Marathon and 102.5 KDON through Clear Channel had a contest to win a free pass to the SVHM Training Program and also for the SVHM itself.

Guess who won?

The training program starts tonight and I just registered using the promo code I received from them. Unfortunately I had already signed up for the half marathon back in December. I now have a free promo code and I got to find out if I know anyone who might want it. The struggle of being a friend.

GD

p.s.
too sore to check. run smiley :)