August 11, 2003 Journal Entry

Posted Monday, August 11, 2003

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I have now done a series of little test runs, in spite of the fact that it is still 10 days from my appointment with the orthopedic surgeon. In theory, I probably am not supposed to be running at all right now, but it continues to appear that if anything the easy runs help the achilles a bit. The times it has gotten sore have been when I have done lots of house or yard work, especially involving squating down or standing a lot. Even at the doctors appointment 10 days from now, I expect I will just get sent for an MRI, with another week for results, then a followup for treatment, etc. Even if everything when perfect, I would be surprised if I got an approval to run before sometime next month.

So far my training as looked like this:
Sat 8/2 - 1 mile, 9:16
Mon 8/4 - 1 mile, 8:52
Wed 8/6 - 2 miles, 18:22
Fri 8/8 - 1 mile, 8:45

I broke by every-other-day routine this weekend, since my achilles was sore from the house and yard work I mentioned above. Still this has me following the 400% rule, going from 1 mile to 4 miles in successive weeks.

The two mile was the best of those workouts, but converted to an equivalent time at my goal race distance, it still comes out to over an hour for 10K. Wow. That is more fun information than anything serious, however, since I know that will pummit once I really begin serious training. I just want to run a little to start loosing things up in case I get the thumbs up to train again fairly quickly.

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