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October 5th, 2008

Easy like a Sunday morning, 16 miles.

Had another good run, All good.

Logbook Activity

Type: Run
Date: 10/05/2008
Total Time: 2:12:00.00
Distance: 16 miles
Average Pace: 8:15.19/mile

October 4th, 2008

What doesn’t kill us can only make us stronger.

Mental Inoculation, one thing at a time. I have had some challenges in my personal life and in addition to that, last week a very good friend of mine found her 3 year old niece floating in her pool. Under the care of a live in babysitter during the incident, I put who was watching her but it really matters not, tragic yes, blame? Over this weekend I was told the little girl had passed away. As a parent of 2 kids, 7 and 13 I can’t attempt to follow how the family must feel. I feel life is like a marathon and this weekend I hit the wall, not knowing how to deal with this I used all my marathon training mental tools to get through this hard time. It’s one step at a time and for now I feel ok, why I kept moving forward was 100% marathon training and I hope I never hit a wall again, But I know I will and this mental inoculation will help me cope with life’s challenges all the better.

Logbook Activity

Type: Strength Training
Date: 10/04/2008
Time: 12:00:00
Total Time: 1:00:00.00

October 3rd, 2008

Run at bay

Logbook Activity

Type: Run
Date: 10/03/2008
Time: 06:46:13
Total Time: 1:13:00.00
Distance: 8.36 miles
Average Pace: 8:44.02/mile

October 3rd, 2008

Workout at work

All good big run sunday.

Logbook Activity

Type: Strength Training
Date: 10/03/2008
Time: 05:00:00
Total Time: 1:00:00.00

October 2nd, 2008

Workout at work

All good, today I run 5-7 miles.

Logbook Activity

Type: Strength Training
Date: 10/02/2008
Time: 05:00:00
Total Time: 1:00:00.00

September 30th, 2008

Ran at bay

Ran at bay, today no running only rest or lets call it training.

Logbook Activity

Type: Run
Date: 09/30/2008
Total Time: 1:05:00.00
Distance: 6.98 miles
Average Pace: 9:19.01/mile

September 29th, 2008

Ran five miles and still going

Had a good run. I have a lot of energy and what I do with it is to use it to my advantage and turn what is not so good into power to fuel this journey of life.

Logbook Activity

Type: Run
Date: 09/29/2008
Time: 20:00:00
Total Time: 00:55:00.00
Distance: 5.2 miles
Average Pace: 10:34.92/mile

September 29th, 2008

Workout at work

All good.

Logbook Activity

Type: Strength Training
Date: 09/29/2008
Time: 05:00:00

September 28th, 2008

Ran at bay

Ran at bay all good, next Sunday 16 miler.

Logbook Activity

Type: Run
Date: 09/28/2008
Time: 09:00:00
Total Time: 2:14:00.00
Distance: 14.2 miles
Average Pace: 9:26.04/mile

September 25th, 2008

Ready set run.

Ready set run. After 3 years of running and getting to know my body in ways I never thought, here I am. I can feel when I need to slow my running down and when I need food, when I need rest and when I am trying to be lazy and the difference between to two.

It’s good to know ones body like we all must have been able to do many many years ago before airplanes and cars indoor plumbing and intrest only loans. We must have been in great tune with our bodies back then, I think we had no choice but to be in tune with our bodies. Our bodies were mostly our way around. What kind of vehicle we moved around in had nothing to do with income only the drive within each of us, can a mini van full of extra fuel move as fast as a lean sports car? Before running if I was a car I would have been a station wagon or suv, big heavy and slow, parked a lot and idling always with full fuel but never going anywhere. What kind of vehicle am I now ?

Logbook Activity

Type: Run
Date: 09/25/2008
Total Time: 00:29:00.00
Distance: 2.6 miles
Average Pace: 11:09.14/mile

About:pushback

Location: Chula Vista CAlifornia United States 91915

My goals are: Keep active, Run a 16:00 5K, Finish a Sub 3:00:00 Marathon I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis in April of 2003, before then I was not very active and I didn’t like any sports that involved any type of Running like soccer or basketball. When I became ill I could not walk very well my knees were very swollen and everything hurt. I found myself using the handicap restrooms and never realized how important those hand rails are or even the height of the toilet seat, but without those modifications I would have had a more difficult time taking care of myself. Being unable to carry my four month old daughter up and down the stairs at our two story house was very hard to deal with and not being able to kick a ball to my six year old son at the park when he rolled the ball to me left a lasting impression in my heart that I will carry forever, at thirty four years old the rest of my life looked very challenging, but for some reason about five months later unknown to me or my doctor I went into full remission and luckily I had no permanent joint damage. When my health got better I decided to be a bit more active, at the time I was taking care of my kids as soon as I got off of work and my wife was working late so I needed some activity that was the most time effective for me and running just made sense. I started with a run around the block, and made I about fifty feet before I became winded and started walking, I walked around the block never running again. The next day I tried it again, this time I made it about seventy five feet and then walked again the rest of the way around the block, with that twenty five foot increase in one day it was enough motivation to keep trying until I ran around the whole block without stopping build and build and staying positive I kept running one block then two then three than four and kept looking back everyday on yesterdays accomplishments to go farther the next day, soon I was up to about 2.5 miles a day it was amazing what I accomplished in such a short time. I ran everyday for about sixty days and then one day on the internet I came across a marathon in Las Vegas on the famous strip, and the strip would be closed for the first time, running on the strip excited me, but I knew I was not even close to being able to run 26.2. I knew I needed great help in this endeavor and with that thought I went to the book store, and did research on the internet. I was a little scared about my health, being in remission from RA I didn’t know if such stress on my body would trigger a relapse or if my joints were strong enough. I purchased several books for marathon training and started to read them and I still had not made up my mind about trying 26.2, but one of the books I picked up was The Non-Runner’s Marathon Trainer. I read some parts of all the books but kept going back to your book it seemed as if it was written just for me. I decided to stick my neck out and I signed up for the new Las Vegas Marathon it was eight months away with the books training I started the journey, I followed the training to the letter but as soon as the long runs started to increase, my knees and calf muscles were too sore even with days off in between, so I shortened my mid week runs to two five mile runs and kept the long runs at the end of the week the same as in the book and it worked. I ran my first marathon in Las Vegas December 2005 with a finish time of 5:06:05 it was the most uplifting experience in my life and to know the feeling of accomplishment for such a great task and all the challenges along the way to get there makes the moment priceless for me, NOW I RUN MARATHONS !! December 2006 I ran Las Vegas again with a finish time of 4:13:41, and on April 1st 2007 I ran the Carlsbad 5000 with a finish time 20:09. Next is San Diego Rock and Roll marathon June 3rd 2007, now I am hooked. The training for 2006 was ten miles a week with the same long runs as in the book on the weekends; it seems to have worked for me, my training for Rock and Roll Marathon is about the same but I am trying for a PR of 3:30 or under. One of the neat thing about being alive is we are creating our own book or big screen movie, Every day we cast our lives not to fate but to destiny, a hard and challenging life to one may be someone else’s dream life. Deep roots bare great fruits.

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Run :	75.8	-	69.0%
Strength:	34.0	-	30.9%
Other:	0.0	-	0.0%
Total:	109.8

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October 5th, 2008

Easy like a Sunday morning, 16 miles.

October 4th, 2008

What doesn’t kill us can only make us stronger.

October 3rd, 2008

Run at bay

October 3rd, 2008

Workout at work

October 2nd, 2008

Workout at work

September 30th, 2008

Ran at bay

September 29th, 2008

Ran five miles and still going

September 29th, 2008

Workout at work

September 28th, 2008

Ran at bay

September 25th, 2008

Ready set run.

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