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July 12, 2004
What gets measured...
...is what gets done. Nath got my watch band replaced. One shouldn't pretend to train without a watch.
After a weekend of limping up and down stairs, I followed Dana's suggestion to see if the shin pain depends on my shoes. I ran today with my old pair. Those old worn shoes had me feeling the stones underfoot, but my shin doesn't feel sore right now. I was hobbling along for about the first 4 k, however, though it was beautiful weather for a run, low 20s centigrade, not too much sun. When I got to the 5 k mark at 21:36, I realized I needed to speed up to finish 14 k in an hour. I didn't make it out to the bridge (halfway) until 30:10.
Then the combination of having a stopwatch ticking on my wrist and the shin pain leaving almost completely about 8.5 k into the run pushed me onward. I ran the second half in about 29 minutes to finish in 59:10:98.
Posted by Mark at July 12, 2004 02:36 PM