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This Saturday morning, I ran in the inaugural Fort-4-Fitness Half-Marathon.
There were 2,000 in my race, along with another 1,000 running a shorter 4-mile run/walk.

I had a pretty bad race, and I am still beating myself up about it, even though I beat one of my goals.
I for sure wanted to be under 2 hours, but thought I should be able to run under 1:50 pretty easily.

Around mile 6, I left my right calf tighten up suddenly. Then around mile 8 the top of my left foot started hurting me, causing me to limp. I stopped a couple times to loosen my shoestrings.
But from miles 8-12, I got passed by a lot of people. I was running pretty slowly…

I ended up at 1:53:35.

And then came this weekend…
My other foot started hurting Saturday afternoon–a full four hours after the race was over. My foot is killing me! I’m not sure what’s up with it, but ibuprofen is my lifeline at the moment!
Both of my calves are also rock-hard, which means I can’t take very big steps.
Not sure what’s up with my tight calves, I’ve never had tight calves before two weeks ago.

My training partner Isaac finished at about 1:43:46. Good job Isaac!
My brother-in-law Nathan finished at 1:44:30. Great job Nate!

Next up for Isaac and myself is a 5K in a couple of weeks. So we’ll be doing a lot of speed work in the next couple of weeks. Hopefully we can both get down around the 20:00 mark. It’s should be a challenging couple weeks of speed work–lots of 800 meter and 1600 repeats! Lots of sore muscles!

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