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Last Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you heard about the Tough Guy<\/a> race?\u00a0 Sounds like fun, in a masochistic kind of way.\u00a0 Last year’s Twin Cities Marathon filled up<\/a>, sadly it is only about 75% full at this point.\u00a0 I got new shoes! I switched over to a Mizuno shoe, learn about my thought process<\/a>.\u00a0 This week’s Foto Friday<\/a> was from a recent camping trip at St Croix State Park.<\/p>\n

Last Year’s Mileage
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Run: 17.3 Miles<\/p>\n

This Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week I had hoped to transition from the tough training weekend back into a decent week of running.\u00a0 I took Monday <\/strong>off to let my body recover and then Tuesday <\/strong>I decided to bike to some meetings in the morning and ended up with 20 miles for the day.\u00a0 Tuesday was actually a record setting temperature (at 97).\u00a0 I did go on Wedsnday <\/strong>for an easy 6.2 miles around a river loop with some hills in 46:35 on a gorgeous morning.\u00a0 Temps were about 70 when I finished.\u00a0 Thursday <\/strong>was another gorgeous morning and I did the almost 3 mile loop around Lake of the Isles.\u00a0 I ran it in 20:17 and the temp was about 60.\u00a0 After that my foot started to hurt again.\u00a0 Surprisingly it felt pretty good on Monday and most of Tuesday.\u00a0 I’m realizing that the more\/longer I’m on it at any given time the more it hurts.\u00a0 I am out of excuses for Friday, Saturday, <\/strong>or Sunday<\/strong>. Part of it was that I really want my foot to stop hurting.\u00a0 It was such a gorgeous week for running though and I should have gone out.\u00a0 Each day I regretted not doing it, except Saturday when we walked around for hours at the Mall of America with my sister-in-law.\u00a0 This really made my foot hurt.\u00a0 Plus I’m racing<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

Weekly Mileage<\/strong><\/p>\n

Run: 9.0 Miles
\nBike: 37.0 Miles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Year Have you heard about the Tough Guy race?\u00a0 Sounds like fun, in a masochistic kind of way.\u00a0 Last year’s Twin Cities Marathon filled up, sadly it is only about 75% full at this point.\u00a0 I got new shoes! I switched over to a Mizuno shoe, learn about my thought process.\u00a0 This week’s Foto […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-mf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1472,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2009\/tcm-training-week-6\/","url_meta":{"origin":1379,"position":0},"title":"TCM Training Week 6","author":"crossn81","date":"July 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Been running. \u00a0Got sick. 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