Andy Gapin

Nice and easy 6-miler with my wife today.

Pace: 8:23
Overall time: 51:13
Vibram Five Fingers Bikila total mileage: 621.24

Physically, I felt okay during tonight’s run, not great, but alright. No significant pain though, so that’s good, especially after Tuesday’s painful run and the lingering pain yesterday.

I felt like I was keeping an alright pace tonight. My level of effort made it feel a little faster than Tuesday, but I was almost 30 seconds/mile slower. I really need to get my speed back.

Pace: 8:31
Overall time: 51:21
Vibram Five Fingers Bikila total mileage: 615.13

Today’s run was great. It was windy out so I did a different route than normal, but I kind of liked it. I ankles felt okay, not perfect, but good enough.

Pace: 7:59
Overall time: 32:47
Vibram Five Fingers Bikila total mileage: 603.06

Went for a four mile run with the wife. We started off with a nice pace and kept it most of the time, it ended up being the faster four miles she’s ever run. My ankle hurt a bit the whole time though, which sucked.

Pace: 8:10
Overall time: 32:39
Vibram Five Fingers Bikila total mileage: 598.95

I think my legs remembered how this works, they wanted to go tonight. I took a trip to the gym because of the cold rain, but the treadmill was no deterrent, my legs wanted to run and they were going to do just that.

I started off nice and easy at an 8:06 min/mile pace for the first two miles and then picked it up for the second two. I took it down to 7:03 min/mile and felt great. And the best part was that none of last night’s ankle pain showed up.

Pace: 7:44
Overall time: 30:58
Vibram Five Fingers Bikila total mileage: 594.93

Today’s run was pretty much a disaster. I didn’t want to do too much, just four miles, but I got sucked into going out to happy hour after work. A beer, a dozen wings, and an order of chips with chili and cheese later, I finally went home and got dressed to run at almost 8pm. None of that stuff sat well in my stomach, not that one would expect it to. I felt like I was holding back throwing up half the time. My stomach was crampy and bloaty feeling. Not fun. On top of that, my ankle hurt for most of the run. All around today’s run sucked.

I guess the only plus to all of that is that it made it easy to keep a nice and slow pace like I should be doing right now. I actually ran a lot slower than I planned/wanted to, but I just wasn’t feeling any portion of tonight’s run.

Pace: 8:38
Overall time: 34:47
Vibram Five Fingers Bikila total mileage: 590.93

First run since the Goofy Challenge two weeks ago. I did four miles on the treadmill since things were rainy, foggy, dark, and snow-covered outside. Didn’t seem too safe. I was planning on just doing two to very slowly ease back into things so I can try to avoid my tendinitis bothering me. I don’t want to spend the next five months training in pain. Two miles just seemed too pointless though.

Pace: 8:01
Overall time: 32:07
Vibram Five Fingers Bikila total mileage: 586.91

The big part of the Goofy Challenge.

Pace: 11:23
Overall time: 4:58:16
Vibram Five Fingers Bikila total mileage: 582.91

The first third of the Goofy Challenge.

Pace: 10:22
Overall time: 2:15:58
Vibram Five Fingers Bikila total mileage: 556.71