treating the legs gently

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration (min)	Sets of 12 pull-ups	Dewey sprint	start time
July 27	≈ 25	Johnston, Iowa	≈43	2	1:07.56	20:22

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration (min)	Sets of 12 pull-ups	Dewey sprint	start time
July 29	≈ 20	Johnston, Iowa	≈39	2		8:01

Sunday night, I ran my slowest Dewey sprint until this morning when I ‘ran’ or jogged at 1:44.  I’m trying to rest my legs a bit.  It is somewhat painful to run, and somewhat unstable. 

setting goals

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration (min)	Sets of 12 pull-ups	Dewey sprint	start time
July 26	≈ 21	Johnston, Iowa	≈43	2	56.94	07:22

I’m amazed at the human body.  A new way to give myself a compliment is not my goal with such a statement.  I’ve just been thinking about the resilience and the elasticity of the body.  Whenever I come to a place for a time, I try to find a section of road or track that I can run in about 60 seconds, and a one-minute sprint is my goal while I am in that area.  In my experience, I am able to run closer and closer to this goal, usually reaching it. 

56.65 a palindromic record

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration (min)	Dewey sprint	start time
July 21	≈ 15	Johnston, Iowa	≈35	:59.34	8:02

           

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration (min)	Sets of 12 pull-ups	Dewey sprint	start time
July 24	≈ 25	Johnston, Iowa	≈33	2	56.65	16:34

After a couple days off from running during RAGBRAI, I went for a jog today.  My legs and body were well ready for a record.  And I made it!  Shattered the record by 1.5 seconds. 

100 x 5K overshadowed by a personal best for James Martin

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration (min)	Dewey sprint	Dewey sprint	start time
July 17	≈ 11	Johnston, Iowa	≈80	1:07.06	1:03.82	06:34

            I tried the Dewey sprint during the first part of the run today.  The results were terrible.  Not faster than the record, but SLOWER than the previous WORST time.  I felt like I was trying to balance on top of a broom handle.  My legs felt like they were sore, unstable, and ready to collapse. 

            I ran by Dad’s place and stopped in for a minute.  I told him that I might need to STOP running for a couple weeks—maybe walk or something.  I’m not sure if I can allow myself to take such a break. 

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration (min)	Sets of 25 push-ups	Dewey sprint	Dewey sprint	start time
July 19	≈ 15	Johnston, Iowa	≈27	1	1:00.02	58.24	08:13

            As you can read above, two days ago, I was thinking that I might need to rest my legs.  I was thinking that I should walk for two weeks until my legs rest up enough and heal. 

Moscow, Tallinn, Johnston going away party

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration (min)	Dewey sprint	1-minute sprints	start time
July 15	≈ 13	Johnston, Iowa	≈90	≈1:06.25	3	06:34

After only three hours of sleep, I ran around Johnston, from Rhonda’s to Peggy’s to Dad’s.  I walked while talking on the phone to Russia for 20 minutes.  It was a great run.

            The confusing part if the Dewey sprint.  Sunday, I ran it in 1:03 while feeling like my legs were awkward and infirm.  I felt like I was nearly limping along—if someone was watching me, they would have seen someone with deficiencies. 

a new record on July 4? Not quite

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration (min)	Loop	9 flights (sec)	start time
July 4	≈ 22	Moscow	≈26	1:13.16	35.00	21.15

I ran yesterday in the evening.  My body seemed to be ready to run.  From the start, I was running on my toes, and throwing my legs and arms wholly into the effort. The air was steaming through my hair and whistling past my ears.  I knew I had a record.  I woke up this morning, ready to share the fantastic information of another record…only to have my plans dashed when I saw that my earlier record was .09 seconds faster.

St. Petersburg white nights

Date	Celsius ° (C*9/5)+32=F	Place of run	Duration (min)	start time
June 28	≈ 13	St. Petersburg	≈28	08:58

On my runs in St. Petersburg, I combined the exercise with searching for decent food.  The hotel had quite shabby breakfast for patrons.  Made especially unsatisfactory by the fact that my boys need fiber in the diets.