Sixty-One Days Left

61 Days from today until the Broad Street Run on May 2.
That's a minimum of 30 days to run... and increase distance from 7 miles to 10.

Have U Seen This Runner ?

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Actually, the runner isn't lost, but apparently her time is......
They can't find my chip time for Saturday's 2010 Frostbite 5 Miler run in Ambler.... So, based on the facts that I didn't have my Nike+, I'm still not 100% sure of the calibrations of the treadmill, my watch was slow, and I'm not sure when I crossed the START line, I think my time was between 61 minutes and 71 minutes. I'm waiting to see if they can find my time, but I doubt it..... it's all digiital, and I can't see how 1 runner's time could get 'lost'.....

216 Miles run.........

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216 Miles..... 48 hours: 47 minutes ......
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Actually, it's more, but I've run 216 measured miles since November when I got the Nike+.

The most boring activity in the world is....

Running on a treadmill..........

I've run 126 miles since Nov. 7, when I got my Nike+, and every minute on the treadmill has been unbelievably boring........ This is just a memo, in case I do run the Broad Street Run - so I can remember how awful it was trying to train in cold weather.

When is a Mile NOT a Mile ?

When you assume that your stride is the same length as the standard calibration on the Nike+.

After running on two different treadmills this week, it looks like my stride is about 20% shorter than the pre-calibrated length on the Nike+. So, a "real" run of 2.5 miles has shown up on my Nike+ log as 3.16 or 3.2 (depending on the treadmill).
So, all my runs have been significantly shorter, and I am significantly slower than I thought I was. My 11:30 pace is really a 15-minute mile. The 6 mile run was really a 4.74 mile run.

6 miles !

Ran six miles today without stopping. Six miles running vs. 33 miles biking (my 'daily distances') - what a difference !

No running today

No running today - hurt my right leg below the knee on the outside - i think the technical name for the part is the "knobby thing on the outside".... hurts to run.
Totally bummed out - i managed to get up to 5 miles (slowly) without stopping. The part doesn't seem to have a name in the medical or sports medicine books, although it might be a nerve.
I will be totally bummed if I have to go back to running on alternate days so i don't put a strain on the knobby thing - it doesn't hurt if i'm not running.

Running - Broad Street Run 2010

I just realized that I haven't blogged yet in November, even though tons of things have been happening. I've been working on a set of copper wind chimes for the front yard, and was going to post a picture as soon as they went up, but I had a small design problem that I'm re-working.

In the meantime, for my post-biking-season-activity for the 2009 - 2010 winter, I have decided to see if I can 'train' for the Philadelphia Broad Street Run, which is held on May 2, 2010. It's 10 miles down Broad Street, which they clear of cars and traffic. Not sure how they manage it, because cars park in the middle of the street and in the bike lanes in S. Philadelphia. I think of it as "Broad Street - Naked".

So, that's my goal. I started in September, and am now up to 5 miles per run. Two miles with no stopping, a small walk (15 paces), then the last 3 miles without stopping. The best place to run is in the street, in neighborhoods with small hills.
Current time for this little shuffle is 58 minutes.... The max allowed time for the real run is 150 minutes.

Goal for November - run the whole 5 miles without stopping.
Here's a picture of my shoes - Mizumo Wave 5 with a Nike+ in the pocket.