Next week, Brooksville is having a mud run / obstacle course. I’ll be running it at 9AM.
http://www.active.com/5k-race/brooksville-fl/hog-wild-mud-run-2011
Signup through their facebook page and get $10 off registration: http://www.facebook.com/pages/HOG-WILD-MUD-RUN/138012386293121
I need to get back to it so I can run a 5K in a few weeks and then the Disney Half Marathon in January. After that I’ll be running Gasparilla the weekend of February 26th. I don’t know yet if I’m going to run a 5K or another half.
Hope everyone is taking it easy this season.
To all those out there that ran today, congratulations. I ran my first half marathon this morning with an injured calf. I tried massaging, stretching, and warming up before the race and had no luck in finding peace with the calf. The cold weather and near constant breeze helped me run with the pain.
Based on one of my longest training runs, I was hoping to run the half in 2 hours and 15 minutes and that was being very optimistic. I managed, through some miracle, to finish in 2 hours and 3 minutes (my personal record). Had I not been injured I would have broken 2 hours, but I am extremely happy with the results. I’ve been running all year with a few weeks off somewhere in the Spring and then challenging myself with a progressive series of races (5K, 10K, 15K, and half marathon).
I’ll be recovering this week and trying to get back to training soon since I have a 5K coming up in the first week of December and then the Disney Half Marathon in January. I plan on beating my PR by 3 minutes for the Disney Half Marathon hoping I don’t have any injuries.
Today, I graduate to the 13.1 sticker.
I ran this past weekend in the Aces Wild Series Race with an official time of 1 hour. Funny story; really.
I woke up on Sunday at 5:30AM and drove down to Clearwater and got lost. The directions I downloaded off of Google was incomplete and didn’t really help identify exactly how to get to the park where the race would be held. I asked for directions and the locals didn’t even know what park I was talking about or the major road it was on. Once I found the park, I thought I was cutting it close and that the race would be starting at 8AM.
I started jogging toward a crosswalk where everyone was crossing over. It looked to me as the runners on the crosswalk were getting ready for the start of the race and so I followed suit. As I crossed the crosswalk I soon found that the race had already begun and that I had missed the start of the race by 20 minutes. I started running the race by myself and had to find the route; I ran more than the course and only logged about 2.5 miles on my Nike Sportband.
Later that night, due to my geographic adventure in Clearwater, I ran my own 5K and logged my time at 22:49.
I now know how to get to that park again for the next couple of races.
As a part of getting more physical fitness training in my life, I have managed so far to keep running and to enter into 2 5K races as part of my New Year’s Resolution (Your Year in Review). I have registered for a series race in Clearwater that starts this weekend (Back on Track…) and am pretty excited to see how I’ve improved over the past 6 months. In preparation for my upcoming 4 races, I’ve been working on distance with my longest distance being 8.5 miles at an 8:35/min pace, and on speed with my average pace for shorter distances being 7:30/min. I have, surprisingly, hit a 6:30/min pace during one of my runs, but that was short lived and caused me to run out of gas for the remainder of the run.
As far as being more socially involved, I have setup an account on CrowdRise, http://www.crowdrise.com/miguelfeliciano, and will be setting up a project to help raise money for a charity for the half marathon I will be running as the last series race. I don’t know what charity I want to raise awareness & money for, but I need to figure that out very soon.
On the procrastination part, I’m guilty. I’ve started several different projects and have not completed many of them. I still have some time this year to complete them, but again; I need to get off my ass and finish.
Have you kept up your resolutions? What charity would you like to see me raise awareness and money for?
Eric Ritter, http://www.connectedmarketer.com/, shared this with me this morning and this article annoys me a bit. You would think that Nike or Apple would test the Nike+ app with iOS4 before being released and fix as many issues/bugs as possible, at least the critical bugs.
This article suggests using RunKeeper and/or Runmeter if you’re on the iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 with the embedded GPS, but what app can be used to accurately track the miles you run when using an iPod Touch or when doing your workout on a treadmill? I wonder if Apple would reject an app that would use the GPS and sensor properly to track mileage that competed with the Nike+ app and also contained additional features like those I posted a while back, http://www.miguelfeliciano.com/10-essential-iphone-apps-for-runners-2.
What do you use to track your runs? If you’re using RunKeeper or Runmeter, do either of those apps track your mileage on a treadmill or allow you to add the run to the Nike+ website?
Well, I decided to just let the loss of 8.5 miles go and keep running. Last night I dug deep to run through a really bad cramp and complete 5 miles instead of the scheduled 7. I’m happy with that and with the 5 miles last night I completed the 210 miles for 2010.
I’ll be working on my 5K time for the next week and a half in preparation of the first race in a series (Aces Wild in Clearwater, FL). The series consists of a 5K, 10K, 15K, and a half marathon. You can either signup for all 5K races or run a progressive track, which is what I’ll be doing (5, 10, 15, and a half). Click on the link above to learn more and signup.
Some more motivation here, http://www.bayshoresolutions.com/news/2010/healthy-workplace.aspx.
Last night at around 9:30PM I finished an 8.56 mile run as part of my training through Nike+. My iPod Touch froze around 4 miles and now the file that gets created for the run is completely gone; nothing to upload. 4 out of the 8.5 miles logged would have given me my 210 miles for 2010 and also put me about 60 miles in front of another runner in a challenge I created. I even tried to add a run file from NikePlusEdit.com and that’s not even working.
All-in-all, I’m seriously pissed with the Nike+ app.
I have not been posting anything for about a week and I forgot to update this blog with my progress of my New Years Resolution and here it is.
I have been running since about the middle of January and have decided to run in the Gasparilla Distance Classic and do my very first 5K. On Saturday, Feb. 27th at 9:30AM, I will be down in Tampa with hundreds of people running or walking; in my case running.
I used to run back a few years ago and now I’m a little more motivated to turn my running into a habit. I’ve purchased 5K apps for my iPod and even hooked myself up with the Nike+ kit. Yes, you read that right; I bought more than one 5K app. Here’s the breakdown:
The great thing about the Nike+ is that it tracks my time, pace, and distance. Once I sync my iPod with the data collected through the Nike+ app on the iPod, I can go to NikeRunning.Nike.com and track my progress, the total distance I covered, and my placement in various social challenges available. This should have been the first place I looked as I found that there are training programs for 5Ks, 10Ks, half marathons, and full marathons. I am completely impressed with the way Nike turned a sport and hobby into something social with a gaming style element to it through the challenges.
Here’s where I’m at with my training and my involvement with the Nike Running community
Just over 3 weeks until the race and I’m scheduled to run today.
