{"id":263,"date":"2010-05-19T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=263"},"modified":"2010-05-19T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T13:00:59","slug":"back-strong-from-a-cold-and-a-hellish-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/05\/19\/back-strong-from-a-cold-and-a-hellish-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Strong from a Cold and a Hellish Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/33818804'><\/iframe><br \/>\nToday I got back into Central Park for a run which turned out to be a rather comfortable 8.15 miles.  I was glad to be back because last week was a wash from one of my most hellish weeks of work.  Each day I was up before 5am for work, with one day being up at 3am.  I was physically drained from playing a costume character on Monday (then running), and never really got to get adequate rest because of exceptionally early calltimes.  I ended up with a cold by week&#8217;s end, stayed in bed all day on Saturday (skipping the Healthy Kidney 10K race in Central Park that I&#8217;d signed up for), and had my energy back by Sunday, which was dedicated toward catching up on chores and errands rather than running.  The same with this past Monday, when I had little productivity time after getting up for work at 2:30am(!!!).  Despite working a little late last night, I got up early today before my calltime to do a run.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was cloudy, though not quite dreary&#8211;post-rain weather that didn&#8217;t feel that humid.  The cool temperature of 52 degrees was quite pleasant to run in, and it may have allowed me to sustain the 7:29 pace that I pulled off.  This was only 3 seconds slower of a pace than <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/32583464\" target=\"_blank\">May 8th<\/a> (11 days ago), when I last did 8.15 miles.  By comparing the two days, today&#8217;s run was stabler, meaning my pace was more consistent from mile to mile.<\/p>\n<p>The only twinge I felt was briefly after shifting my stride to &#8220;short&#8221; (when I focus on rapid turnover of my feet).  The twinge was in my left knee, in the center of it just below the kneecap.  It was a twinge like a pin maybe pushing into the center, but nothing too painful.  It developed maybe a minute after starting to short-stride.<\/p>\n<p>This week <em>seems<\/em> a little less hellish but it&#8217;s really to be seen what I can pull off.  I did also get in a quick set of abs, back, and arms at the gym before nearly burning down my apartment with letting my eggs go too long on the stove.  Doh!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to be faster than I am right now.  Time, Ben, time!  Oh, and on recommendation, I&#8217;m reading Ed Burke&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Precision-Heart-Training-Edmund-Burke\/dp\/0880117702\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1274273635&#038;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Precision Heart Rate Training<\/em><\/a> when I can.  I&#8217;m trying to get to a place to use my Garmin&#8217;s heart rate monitor.  I&#8217;m interested to see how heart rate training will affect my training, speed, and endurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I got back into Central Park for a run which turned out to be a rather comfortable 8.15 miles. I was glad to be back because last week was a wash from one of my most hellish weeks of work. Each day I was up before 5am for work, with one day being up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/05\/19\/back-strong-from-a-cold-and-a-hellish-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back Strong from a Cold and a Hellish Week<\/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-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","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=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}