{"id":243,"date":"2010-05-08T12:27:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T16:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=243"},"modified":"2010-05-23T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T16:29:08","slug":"pasta-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/05\/08\/pasta-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasta Strong!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/32583464'><\/iframe><br \/>\nYea!  Today was a great run!  I thought it was a bit greater than the results showed, but it <em>felt<\/em> great, and that&#8217;s what counts right now.<\/p>\n<p>First off, the weather.  As soon as I arrived in Central Park, it started to, um, pour.  The beginning of my run was in rain but the rain didn&#8217;t really hold out, making a brief reappearance around mile 5 but ending soon after it restarted.  Althought it was wet and cloudy, it didn&#8217;t feel too humid out; it kinda felt about right, though a little bit on the warmer side of &#8220;about right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My lungs felt pretty darn good.  And my legs did, too.  I didn&#8217;t train as much as I really wanted to this week, still trying to figure out how to balance work and running.  But I <em>did<\/em> go a little longer today, running 8.15 miles (which last year I measured as 8.273 miles).  I did it in just over 1 hour, which isn&#8217;t so bad and suggests to me that I have a lot of capability in my current body if I stay healthy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if Garmin may have been a little off on judging my pace because I felt much faster in several places than Garmin was letting on.  I saw a number of 7:45ishes when I felt was I going maybe more like 7:15s, but all in all, the added mileage didn&#8217;t diminish what is turning out to be my standard pace for now (7:26s I did today and I&#8217;m doing around 7:25s).  Today&#8217;s results typically would mean to me that I&#8217;m actually a little bit faster than 7:26s in the early miles.  However, for this run it&#8217;s not true because if you view the Details for this run, you&#8217;ll see that my pace actually sped up in the later miles.  This was because I had some &#8220;challengers&#8221; trying to overtake me, and I fought them off for as long as I was with them!<\/p>\n<p>As for pains, I&#8217;m going to call the area in the north part of the park around the ice skating rink\/swimming pool &#8220;Pain Valley.&#8221;  Regularly in that area I feel something here or something there, that doesn&#8217;t tend to be much of anything in the grand scheme of things.  It is downward sloped in that area, which may betell why there are bodily changes yielding discomfort.  Today&#8217;s sensation in Pain Valley was on the inside of my left knee, the muscley area.  The sensation didn&#8217;t last longer than Pain Valley so it didn&#8217;t seem like anything.  The rest of the run felt pretty strong and strengthening.<\/p>\n<p>After the run, I did abs, back, arms, and legs, doing a couple more reps for abs, back, and legs than I have usually been doing.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I have a race!  We&#8217;ll see how the extra training affects it.  Extra pasta may have affected today&#8217;s strong run: I had Oglio &#038; Aglio with Chicken from Euro Delights (a favorite meal pre-long-run) both Thursday and Friday nights, and I was thinking during the run that it was a significant factor in why I was running so strongly today.  I probably could have gone two full loops around Central Park, but I thought that I best not do that just yet, that it would be smarter to hold to about 8 miles for my first long run of the year.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. ArginMax and quercetin plus a Strawberry-Banana PowerGel went into my system about a half hour before my run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yea! Today was a great run! I thought it was a bit greater than the results showed, but it felt great, and that&#8217;s what counts right now. First off, the weather. As soon as I arrived in Central Park, it started to, um, pour. The beginning of my run was in rain but the rain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/05\/08\/pasta-strong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pasta Strong!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}