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Location:

FL,United States

Member Since:

Feb 08, 2015

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Certified course PR's:

Mile: 4:28.0 (Florida, Jan 2020)

5K: 15:12 (FL, Jan. 2020)

10K: 31:44 (FL, Feb. 2020)

15K: 49:03 (FL, Feb. 2020)

1/2 Marathon: 1:10:34 (FL, Feb. 2020)

Marathon: 2:26:57 (WA, July 2019)

100k (63.7 miles, trail): 9:11:00 (FL, Jan. 2019)

Personal:

I started running in 2010 and have (mostly) kept it a habit ever since!  

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10.000.0010.00

PM: 10 miles, did not feel well and heart rate is elevated.  I contracted the virus, which is depressing.  I guess we'll see how bad it is, though.

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3.502.506.00

PM: 6 miles with John, 2.5 of hills

Felt absolutely awful.  Breathing is tough, I gave some good efforts, but the heart rate was just off the charts.  I shouldn't say that.  It's the blood pressure.  I literally am hearing the heart in my skull.

This was the worst day.  I have soreness ALL over.  I felt better after my triple races in February than I did today.  I will have to monitor this better.  

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No running.  Feel so bad.

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No running.  Heart rate is a mess, breathing is a mess.  Corona virus is in full effect today.  This is now day four of symptoms.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
17.200.0017.20

AM: 17.2 miles.  I barely made it.  This was an abysmal run.  

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
11.000.0011.00

AM: 11 miles, felt better.

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11.403.0014.40

AM: 9.1 miles 

PM: 5.3 miles

 

Felt awful in the morning, and worse in the afternoon- didn't think it was possible to feel this bad.

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6.000.006.00

PM: 6 miles

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
7.602.5010.10

AM: 5 miles

PM: 6.1 miles, 3 fast of hills

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14.000.0014.00

AM: 10 miles

 

PM: 4 miles

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.100.006.10

AM: 6.1 miles

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
10.100.0010.10

PM: 10.1 miles

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
12.300.0012.30

PM: 6.2 miles

Late PM: 6.1 miles

As it stands, I am not fully recovered, but I can run at least.  I felt like I could run through it, but now that just feels stupid to have done last week.  My heart is/was so frantically, and the soreness was just... awful.  

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
9.103.0012.10

AM: 5.1 miles.

PM: 7 miles.

Today is a bad day.  I am sore all over again, and I feel broken.  This is affecting me in the oddest ways.  My running is taking such a hit.  I wanted ten this morning, but no chance.

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Awful day.  Probably putting up a goose egg.  I feel so uncomfortable.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
14.502.5017.00

AM: 11 miles

PM 6 miles

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6.500.006.50

PM: 6.5 miles.  Watch was dead.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
12.100.0012.10

AM: 12.1 miles

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
16.100.0016.10

AM: 16.1 miles

Felt like garbage.

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6.000.006.00

AM: 6 miles

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No running.

Really did not feel well.

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10.000.0010.00

PM: 10 miles

Felt absolutely rejuvenated.  This virus is ridiculous.  A couple times a week I feel like death, and then all of a sudden the sky opens up.  I don't understand this at all.

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14.603.0017.60

AM: 11.3 miles

PM: 6.3 miles, even did hill intervals quite hard effort-wise.

Again, felt rejuvenated, although the weather was terrific (for Florida).  80s, still humid, but rainy.  I know it sounds still awful, but it was really ideal.

The virus is really intermittent lately for me.  I'm well outside the infectious window, but it isn't going away.  The months prior to this it seemed like breathing would be the challenge, but the challenge for me is vascular.  My blood, my muscles, the pressure... It just won't go away.  The last two days have been great, but it honestly feels like this is just never going to go stop.  I'm really disappointed.  I know I'm a healthy individual, so I guess I just never figured it would do this.  At least to me.  Naive to say the least.  

What it means for my fitness, I have no idea.  It's residual nature is just enraging.  Even if there were races currently, I don't think I'd even participate.  I wouldn't even touch a Parkrun.  It will eventually go away, but these waves are unnerving.  

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PM: 10 miles. I must've walked four times and sat down twice. Afterwards I was incredibly sore- everywhere. I am really not dealing with this positively. At least I have control over that aspect.

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No running, the nightmare continues.

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15.000.0015.00

AM: 15 miles at a garbage pace.

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No running.  Feeling it.

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No running.  Feeling it.

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9.100.009.10

PM: 9.1 mile slog.

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4.602.507.10

PM: 7.1 miles with John, 2.5 miles "fast" which is hilarious to write right now, but I did give effort which is all that matters anyway.

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Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.400.006.40

PM: 6.4 mile slog.

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243.2019.00262.20
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