It's All Goodnow

I haven't been running much as of late.  The cause: plantar facsilitis.  It isn't that I can't run, it is that I can't run pain free.  Thus I have relegated myself to riding the stationary bike and lifting (which is starting to get a tad redundant.  Also, with the lack of running in my life I am noticing my weight slowly creep up on me.  I'm not about to be asked to star as Fat Albert, but I think I would be up for the "Husky best friend" role in a movie. That said, I have been doing exercises, foam rolling, wearing a ridiculous sock to bed at night that stretches my foot (Called the Strasburg Sock), and I even went to PT to get this figured out.  Anyhow, today is National Running Day and all over my social media channels there is a barrage of "run this and run there and run the world" posts.  Not that I was motivated by this, but I figured...today is that day (much like that Monster.com commercial where people of all ages, races, and genders s...

So I have 2 months to train for the NYC marathon.  Yes, perhaps, I should have given myself more time to prepare, but we are beyond the should have done's at this juncture.  I don't exactly have a "plan" of sorts, I figure that I'll just run a bunch and hope for the best come November 3rd. My first run in a few months was September 3rd.  I made it....16 minutes.  I think that's a good start.  I only felt a little bit like I was going to die. My next run was September 5th.  I made it 21.15 minutes.  Felt much better.  I mean, if we are talking percentages here I absolutely blew it up.  A 25% improvement.  You can take that shit to Wall St. September 7th = 40.30.....Now I am just getting ridiculous.  Almost a 100% improvement.  At this rate I will be running four hours in no time.  No time at all.  That said I was a bit light headed by the end of the run.  Maybe I should eat something before running.  Gu...