Week in review
It’s been a relatively good week this week:
On Monday I went to get a xray of my foot as my little toe is still swollen and hurting. You may recall that I knocked it a few weeks back. It originally went purple but cleared up quickly so I thought it was just bruised but it never really got better so I went and had it checked out. It turns out it is fractured and it will take a while to heal. Fortunately it doesn’t interfere with my running as my running shoes are a size larger than my normal shoes so there is no impact on it.
On Tuesday I did a nice 11km run home after work.
On Wednesday I thought about running but didn’t. 
On Thursday I ran with a colleague and we did a 10km run in a blistering (by my standards) 52:40. That’s the fastest 10K I have run in over a year. I’ve been running with Peter for a few weeks now and it’s been most enjoyable. I find running with someone else forces you to push yourself a little harder than you normally would.
On Friday I went and bought some new running shoes. I went to buy some more Brooks Defyance’s but they didn’t have my size in the new model so I decided to try some Adidas Adistar Ride 2′s. To test them out I did my local 4.5km loop in 24:58 which is the fastest time I’ve ever done it in. I’m sure it’s just coincidence.
On Saturday I got up at 1:30am to watch Netherlands eliminate Brazil in the football world cup. I was supposed to go running on Saturday morning but let’s just say that while the spirit was willing, the flesh was weak. Instead my wife, daughter and I went to a few of our favourite farmer’s markets and free sampled our way through the morning.
This morning, it is 8:30 and I’m already back from a 21.6km run (in 2:13:50) which was most enjoyable. My little girl is 3 years old today so we are having a family gathering this afternoon. Good times.
So my running this week has been pretty good. I’ve done 47.1 km in 4:37:08 for an average pace of 5:53/km. I’ll take that. I’m slowly building my mileage up again as it is almost time for me to start marathon training again.
I’ve also restarted the 100 pushups, 200 squats and 200 situps trifecta. I thought I’d give them all a go at the same time to get a bit of conditioning. It’s pretty much the first time I’ve done any pushups since doing the 100 a few months ago!
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“it turns out my toe is fractured and it will take a while to heal. Fortunately it doesn’t interfere with my running”
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Good running there Andrew, I’m glad to see your post! I was kind of worried about your disappearance. But it sounds like everything is all good.
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Are you doing the pushups squats and situps altogether? How does this work, are you planning to gradually build up? Sorry if this is a daft question I am just interested in doing something similar, I would really like to build up my push ups and sit ups inbetween kickboxing classes.
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I think it will be interesting to see how much we can up the pace on our training runs. If I’m ever to do a marathon in under four hours, then I think I need to be doing 10 Km in under 50 minutes (well, 49:54 if I believe Runners World).
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Greg
reply on July 4th, 2010 3:31 pm:
Peter, a good estimate for marathon is to multiply your 10K time by 4.6. This is actually a bit too optimistic and most people have to use a multiplier closer to 5 to get an accurate prediction for their marathon. For a more detailed predictor that uses various formulas, check out this site: http://is.gd/deA2U
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That’s some great running lately Andrew! I really need to restart the 100 pushups again too. I’ve only done a couple sets here and there since finishing it the first time around.
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does this mean the mojo is back too?
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Andrew
reply on July 6th, 2010 6:35 am:
Slowly but surely.
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Nice running Andrew! And it took me forever to get back to doing push ups after conquering the 100 as well. Weird. You’d figure that upon achieving something like that it would be easy to just do a few sets every week just to “maintain”, but it certainly wasn’t my experience.
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I feel so behind on my pushups too. It’s like I forget about them sometimes.
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Great running Andrew! Wow, that is good that you can run with the fractured toe…. but what does the doc say about that?
I agree the running with others helps you to push yourself more than you would normally, it is good to see you have someone with a similar pace to run with.
As for the new shoes – no coincidence….. just faster!
Maybe you should go another pair…. I am buying a new pair every week to see how fast I can get 
pushups…. I need to too….. soon!
Hope you toe heals quickly!
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Looks like you have managed to get some good runs in there Andrew.
Glad to see you are starting back on the pushups, situps and squats – I keep starting them but never get past a couple of days, I should really focus on them and use them daily to aid my routine.
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I’ve been having to get up early to watch the matches too — but not that early!
Nice job on the speed runs.
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Yikes on the toe! Glad you are working thru it & love that you added back in some push-ups, squats & core!
I love the push-ups!
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Happy birthday to your daughter (and her parents)! Sorry about the toe, but glad you can run through it.
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