Running Links

I've been web-browsing and wanted to organize some of the links I found...


MSN has some excellent articles about perhaps the most important component of a run: your knees

• When Good Knees Go Bad
• What Your Knees Need
• An Owner's Manual for your Knees
• Build a Better Knee

And Misc links:

• Runner's Guide to Nutrition
• Calibrating your Inner GPS: Learning to run by feel
• A DC Running Club I'm considering

And finally, some stuff I'm thinking of buying:

• Jack Daniels: The Art and Science of Running
• The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer
  

Whew, what began simply as a read up of an area of concern (my knees, for which I am petrified), ended up being a random walk in the endless corridors of the internet.

Finally finally ran. So it's official. I REALLY hate running in anything below 20 degrees centigrade. And about 80% humidity is just fine. That's how I like to run.

So anyway, because met a chit of a girl at LUMS who doess 8k and I felt so bad for letting my running go, that I got up and ran a somewhat decent 5.5 k. Need to run more often.

Sometime back: 1.5 km

Today:
Distance: 5.52 km
Time: 32 mins, 54 secs
Pace: 5 mins 58 secs / km
Mileage on Nikes: 173.71 km

Yeah, it's really slow, but who cares. I RAN!

2006 Mileage till 1-11-06 = Approx 10km

Mileage since 1-11-06 = 123.2km and counting!

7k in the morning!

Couldn't sleep after Fajr, so I hit the road. The sun was out, but not as sapping as last time. Lots of traffic though: had to run on the spot many times while waiting for the pedestrian walkway to open.

P.S. My previous calculations were slightly off. The 7k runs earlier were probably closer to 6.5-6.8. Needlessly pedantic I know, but wanted to straighten the record

Another 7k...

...at 3pm, on a rather hot day, tiring and time-consuming...

7k

Unlike the last run, there were no hiccups tonight and I managed to run straight for 7k. It's more hilly than Race Course Park used to be, but 7k really isn't pushing me too much nowadays. However, I'm kinda constrained by the available running areas in my neighborhood.

Oh, and this was done on a windy, damp midnight right after light rain. Gorgeous weather!!! I was kinda (actually, very) sore after the last run, which was my first in ages, but the weather decided it for me tonight!!!

P.S. Once again, no time!

6.5k

My Timex just managed to break its strap. It's been a wonderful watch over the last three years, and it still works perfectly, but I really don't know how to reclaim it at this point. Since my watch is also my HRM, I have lost use of that too, for now (I'll try to figure something out, maybe get a new watch that receives HRM data). Running without clocking myself, and without the HRM felt pretty nice actually. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Stopped at the midway mark because my new ankle wraps were too tight, and were stopping blood circulation. Stopped after another km again because I (almost literally) ran into a very close friend waiting for a bus. However, at the end of the run, I wasn't much out of breath. Either its because a first run after a break is always brisk, or the long runs in Pakistan have left their mark on my stamina. Either way, it was a fun, relaxed run and my first in the US after returning from Pakistan.

Addendum: Eeeep! I just realized I was just two days short of two months without a run...

Date: March 10, 2007

Distance: 3.19km

Time: 17 mins 53 secs

Pace: 5 mins 36 secs / km



Crappy run after ages. Winter has gone and I finally ran after AGES. Wish the flu would go away. Tired of coughing.



Keep running you fool.

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