{"id":426,"date":"2010-08-01T22:09:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T02:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=426"},"modified":"2010-08-01T22:45:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T02:45:53","slug":"somehow-slowly-i-conclude-a-50-67-mile-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/08\/01\/somehow-slowly-i-conclude-a-50-67-mile-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Somehow Slowly, I Conclude a 50.67-Mile Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I felt I was moving at a rabbit&#8217;s pace but it was more like a rabbit on a turtle&#8217;s back or something: I ran 8.1 miles in Central Park this evening at a surprisingly slow 7:49 pace.  No one passed me but I guess the half pizza I ate after yesterday&#8217;s 20.04 miles&#8211;with its sodium and my high liquid intake (meaning fluid retention)&#8211;made me heavier and slowed me down a lot.  Post-run, I weighed close to 180 lbs., so I guess that confirms my theory.  But regardless, though I started this week on Wednesday, I crammed in 50.67 miles this week.  Incredible, especially considering I feel pretty damn good!  Here are my deets for today&#8217;s run:<br \/>\n<iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/42792152'><\/iframe><br \/>\nInjurywise, I suppose what&#8217;s to report is what I <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> experience.  I think yesterday&#8217;s ice bath made quite a difference on my legs &#8230; that, and maybe sleeping in compression socks &#8230; because this morning I felt NO PROBLEMS with my legs!  They felt great!  It really is unbelievable.  The only thing physical to report for today&#8217;s run was &#8230; heartburn.  The pizza was coming up a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The temperature was 74 and pretty cool, though given my sweating a bit more than yesterday the humidity probably made an impact: It was about 70%.  I kept pretty even splits despite being so slow.  I even picked up the pace toward the end, mostly because I was trying to catch a guy just ahead of me.  I could tell from the beginning I was pretty slow because I was listening to The Flaming Lips&#8217;s album <em>Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots<\/em>, which I&#8217;ve synched to the course, and I was far behind where the songs usually change.  Without a physical explanation, I reasoned the pizza I was lugging, along with retained fluids, and maybe a little bit of muscle weariness, led to the slower speed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m drinking a protein shake I made.  I also took a couple laxatives to speed things up inside.  Tomorrow is a rest day and I will take advantage of it.  Hopefully the rest of the week will let me continue to train with considerable mileage.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: I&#8217;m taking Naproxen 500mg, but not just before my runs.  I&#8217;m on Day 3 today.  I just read that fluid retention may be related to taking naproxen, and I was noticing a little flab under my arms that I thought would be leaner in light of my running.  I&#8217;ve also had some digestive surprises I won&#8217;t go into, and maybe shallower breathing (seen when I run).  So, is naproxen interfering with my running and explaining some of these results?  It&#8217;s to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt I was moving at a rabbit&#8217;s pace but it was more like a rabbit on a turtle&#8217;s back or something: I ran 8.1 miles in Central Park this evening at a surprisingly slow 7:49 pace. No one passed me but I guess the half pizza I ate after yesterday&#8217;s 20.04 miles&#8211;with its sodium &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/08\/01\/somehow-slowly-i-conclude-a-50-67-mile-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Somehow Slowly, I Conclude a 50.67-Mile 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-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}