tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60390699263542562462024-03-13T20:03:39.377-07:00Run for the Brunch Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-928335514001686532014-04-22T08:34:00.002-07:002014-04-22T08:36:00.044-07:00To run or not to run?!?!Here's the rub:
I am scheduled to run the Brooklyn half next month, but I'm also meant to start training for the NYC Marathon in July.
If I get injured (again) due to Brooklyn, I don't really have time to recover before marathon training starts.
But if I don't run Brooklyn, I won't have enough qualifying races for the NYC Half guaranteed entry next year.
Training so far:
—I ran Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-17637969862197808962014-04-07T12:53:00.000-07:002014-04-07T12:53:08.631-07:00Belated Weekend Race Report
First, the good news.
After my half-marathon PR my resolve to actually train properly—with speed drills and strength training and core work—was bolstered. I hit the gym for weight training and I signed up for Jackrabbit Sports' "Targeting Training for a Faster Finish" class, where I ran my first ever Fartlek on purpose. This weekend I had back-to-back races, and based on the fact that I knew Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-50697871970670907132014-03-24T12:41:00.000-07:002014-03-24T13:00:48.605-07:00Michelob 13.1 Half-Marathon Recap!
Soooo. I notoriously psych myself out on all sorts of occasions, but for whatever reason, I was in such a good mental space for this one. It may have helped that I didn't feel like I actually had a half marathon to run—even while I was in the middle of it!
Pre-race:
The weather reports all week said Saturday would be a high of 63 degrees, and with that number stuck in my head I Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-22597020680391981512014-03-01T10:33:00.000-08:002014-03-01T10:33:42.541-08:00The Dangers of a Runner's High
Here I sit on the floor of my overly warm apartment, alternating between bites of my breakfast sandwich and rolling out bits and pieces of my legs. I can relate, in the happiest prose, that I had a good run. I also need to start running with a tape recorder because I have all my best thoughts out there, but no way to stop and write them down.
I woke up with a salt hangover after eating Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-47093742120410645812014-02-08T09:14:00.001-08:002014-02-08T09:14:26.605-08:00Run, Recover, Roquefort.
Once again I've taken an extended break from this thing. No need to recap all the highs and lows in between, let's just get at it.
After a 10 mile race in January left me with bad outer foot and arch pain, an MRI showed I have tenosynovitis, tendinosis and edema, which are all just fancy ways of saying inflammation. And because blogs are about visuals, here's a picture of that junk:
Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-85546050389544043112013-04-23T17:58:00.000-07:002013-04-23T17:58:02.986-07:00Recappin'So in between my 10-miler in January and my tearful 8-miler last week I did do a little running. It went a little something like this:
After the really chilly Run to the Brewery, I ran an even chillier Hot Chocolate 10k in Prospect Park with Kaitlyn.
SO COLD! Of course, by the end of it I was overheating but man were my digits numb at the start line. It was 1.5 laps of the park, and I Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-91978677217563563022013-04-16T19:13:00.000-07:002013-04-16T19:41:34.536-07:00Boston.
Can I claim to have a running blog, casual though it may be, and not post about the Boston Marathon? Yes, I probably can, but I'm gonna go ahead and say something anyway.
Tonight I went for a run because it was on my training schedule, but also because I wanted to be around other runners who wanted to be around other runners—because this is how we help each other make sense of something Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-64944291538290669402013-04-13T18:30:00.000-07:002013-04-13T20:00:47.510-07:00Somebody Call Me A Wahmbulance!Does anyone else feel like this year is closing in on them? And it's only (read: ALREADY!) mid-April.
I think I'll save a re-cap of the last 3 months for another day, because right now I just want to talk about the run I just had.
It's 9pm and I just got back from an 8 mile run because, even though I woke up at a respectable running hour when the sun was shining, I loafed around in bed. Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-37466704702583203052013-01-19T18:00:00.000-08:002013-01-20T08:56:51.041-08:00Run to the Brewery!My mission to do more fun, smaller, home-town races is off to a great start with the Sayville Run to the Brewery, a race that starts and ends at the Blue Point Brewing Co.
I headed out to Long Island on Friday night to stay with my friend Kaitlyn who was also running the race. Too much tasty Italian food, frozen yogurt, and a couple of NBC sitcoms later, a 6:15 wake-up call was set. Friday was Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-5369113617051071552013-01-15T18:02:00.000-08:002013-01-15T18:02:01.508-08:00Aaaand it's only TuesdayFirst off, let me just say how much I love volleyball. Too bad it's taken me so long to participate in organized team sports, but now I'm here and I totally dig it. Even though our team is not that good. (But that's what 'extremely casual' divisions are for!)
Our first real game was Sunday and we played the same team of kindergarteners as the scrimmage. Only this time there were 3x as many Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-76573570548627448422013-01-12T11:54:00.001-08:002013-01-12T12:00:23.135-08:00You win some, you lose someWIN
Thursday 1/10: I almost skipped this one, but I'm so glad I didn't. My expectations weren't particularly high, just wanted to get it done. I decided to run clockwise in the park, a direction I normally hate, but I needed a change of scenery. Well, it turns out clockwise only sucks on the west side because you're running the hills in the steeper direction. On the east side it's really not so Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-89882965127578554662013-01-08T18:32:00.001-08:002013-01-08T18:32:24.757-08:00Drawback
A little burn here, a little ache there, an occasional dull discomfort in between...that's how it started last time and before I knew it—stress fracture. So when these symptoms reappeared recently, I sucked it up and made YET ANOTHER appointment with my orthopedic doc...
...Who pretty much had to say the same thing as usual, which was nothing. A 5-minute, $30 copay of nothing. Apart Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-53698795856219244482013-01-06T18:52:00.000-08:002013-01-06T18:57:30.812-08:00Zog for the beer?
So, tonight I didn't so much run as played some volleyball. Extremely casual volleyball. And it wasn't so much for brunch, as it was for charity. And beer.
Yes, ladies and gentleman, I joined ZogSports and for the first time in my life am venturing into the world of organized sports. Extremely casual organized sports. Since I've never really tested my hand-eye-ball coordination before, I Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-10330587377385593512013-01-05T08:21:00.001-08:002013-01-06T13:20:35.060-08:00A happy quasi-50th :)
It has come to my attention that today I ran my 50th NYRR race since becoming a runner. Not counting the 2 marathons, or a handful of non-NYRR races. So really, it's no great shakes and I should've celebrated a few events ago, but seeing the number 50 on my current member history somehow seems significant. (It also seems kind of low. Shouldn't I be up to 200 by now?)
Because I spent so much Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-57052619507755080402013-01-03T19:03:00.000-08:002013-01-05T09:08:29.947-08:00Lies! Sweet, sweet lies.I moved to Morningside in September, which means I moved New York Sports Clubs and it has not been an easy transition. It's much smaller, and the weights and weight machines are downstairs where the muscly dude : chubby lady ratio is vastly disproportionate compared with my old UES gym. There also no spinning class, just a single bike upstairs with the rest of the stationary bikes. So, I've Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-35039961440319090172013-01-01T19:59:00.001-08:002013-01-01T20:13:45.361-08:00I'm baaaaack!After a year-long blogging hiatus—fraught with meager milage, persisting injury, zero weight loss and a downward slope in motivation—the calendar has turned it's last page and we are now in what will, hopefully, be lucky '13. As such, I resolve to roll my muscles and stretch and pamper my shins like a good little runner. I resolve to set bigger and better goals for myself in terms of races, Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-50914151263091234092012-01-07T17:28:00.000-08:002012-01-07T17:30:10.469-08:00My second last race of 2011Okay, so my New Year's Resolution to stop running was dead in the water before 2012 really even started.
But I would do anything for Joe 10k—even if his face wasn't on the shirt this year. HOWEVER, this was the last race I was signed up for, so now I'm not going register for anything before March and I promise to stick to my 6-8week rest policy from here on out.
First, a lesson: Even when Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-89473128493011090822012-01-04T18:54:00.000-08:002012-01-04T18:54:05.194-08:00Resolving, almost.Happy belated New Year!
After a happy, busy, dysfunctional, all-too-brief holiday I am back in action. Kind of.
Mid-December I had another MRI on my shin and went back to my sports medicine doctor to learn that my almost-stress fracture has become a mini stress fracture. The prescription was 6-8 weeks of no-impact exercise and rest. AND a home ultrasound bone healing device (which, miracle of Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-23969908743076726882011-12-19T18:37:00.000-08:002011-12-19T18:37:29.829-08:00Confessions of a Grimy Runner, Chapter 3My dailymile Secret Santa gift arrived! The message was the best part: "Hope this helps you put off doing laundry by at least one more day." My secret santa knows I'm not even close to godliness. . Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-68756506951840773222011-12-15T17:43:00.000-08:002011-12-15T17:43:36.462-08:00All I want for Christmas is Endorphins.Hey there. Remember me? I know, I barely remember me either.
After the marathon I took a month off —my physical therapist suggested 8 weeks, my orthopedic surgeon suggested no time at all, so I split the difference—and OHMYGOODNESS was it a tough month.
I was still going to the gym but this is problematic for two reasons:
1. I never work as hard as when I'm running. Who's that girl slogging on Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-37406902899670657412011-11-08T18:03:00.000-08:002011-11-08T18:41:14.597-08:00I'm a marathoner, and I'm okay.I've been remiss in posting the last few weeks. After my 20-miler, my running taper kind of snowballed into a taper in all parts of my life, and at the bottom of the barrel was blogging.
In short, I was not a taper-hater, but really enjoyed putting in fewer miles. Even though it meant, oddly, that my shinjury was hurting more. My health insurance denied me any more physical therapy 3 weeks before Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-12089905702169063282011-10-15T13:42:00.000-07:002011-10-15T13:52:35.940-07:00Despite what you are about to read, that 20-miler went absurdly well."Eat right," they said. "Get plently of sleep," they said. "Don't go out and drink too much," they said.
Soooo I ate like a beast yesterday. Seriously. I ate a child's size bowl of cereal, a muffin and a bagel with olive cream cheese in the span of 5 hours. Then I had what would've been a healthy meal of vegetables and barley were it not for the absurd amount of oil and sour cream that Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-43376844863960934712011-10-04T11:07:00.000-07:002011-10-04T11:07:19.367-07:00Confessions of a Grimy Runner, Chapter 2I don't necessarily hate doing laundry. What I hate is having to do laundry so damn often.
And, unlike certain pairs of jeans, you just can't re-wear running clothes half a dozen times and have it go unnoticed. Running pants are gross, especially in the summer. You sweat, you kick up dirt, you apply BodyGlide which somehow makes every article of clothing it touches immediately smell stale. Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-59235631033353699132011-09-30T15:52:00.000-07:002011-09-30T15:52:19.663-07:00I Heart Friday NightFriday night means staying in, watching all the TV I missed during the week and scarfing down a huge bowl of pasta for Saturday morning's long run. Clearly the shirt does not lie.
Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6039069926354256246.post-61507952411860910222011-09-26T08:09:00.000-07:002011-09-26T08:09:55.390-07:00Hitting the Physical Therapy JackpotSince my shinjury first occurred back in March, I have been trying everything I can to heal it (except not training for a marathon—I haven't tried that yet). First of all, because my doctor is the NYRR medical team leader for the marathon, I was convinced he would just wave his magic stethoscope over my leg and fix me right there on the spot. Instead he told me to take 2 weeks off. Reluctantly, I Dana D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08674315070805793047noreply@blogger.com0