Light day today, walking around New Hope in the sun. Vacation is a nice thing. That’s why the blog has been so light.
I may offer some posts later and tomorrow as I start to look ahead and get back into the swing. We’ll see.
Anyway, no run today — needed recovery time after running 12 miles yesterday in just over two hours. Hard to conceive of another six. Wow.
Seventeen days and counting.
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Busy yesterday — out of the office all week — so I didn’t post my progress. Race is now 19 days away.
Monday: Six miles in 57 minutes
Tuesday: Four miles in 39 minutes
Only concern is a sore lower back, but I’ve upped my stretching and will ice later. Cross your fingers friends.
As I wrote last week, I plan to use the LBI Commemorative 18-Mile Run (a fundraiser for the St. Francis Community Center in Brant Beach) to raise some money locally, as well.
I’m asking readers to help by sending donations to one of four organizations: the South Brunswick Human Intervention Trust Fund, the Deacon’s Food Cupboard in Jamesburg, the Monroe Township Food Pantry and Skeet’s Pantry in Cranbury.
Readers who are interested should make checks out to the South Brunswick Human Intervention Trust Fund, the Presbyterian Board of Deacons (for the Deacon’s Food Cupboard) at the Jamesburg Presbyterian Church, the First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury (for Skeet’s Pantry), or the Friends of the Senior Center (for the Monroe Township Food Pantry). Send them to the South Brunswick Post/The Cranbury Press, P.O. Box 309, Dayton, N.J. 08810, attn: Hank Kalet.
Thanks in advance.
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Ran four today (27.5 for the week!), which was probably pushing it, and I am paying for it now. My right hip is sore and I maybe getting a slight cold. Will have to hit the vitamin C.
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OK: 24 days and counting until I hit the pavement in Long Beach Island. I did an 11-mile run this morning (listening to Springsteen — “I’m a rocker, baby I’m a rocker…”) in 1:50:34 — that’s one hour, 50 minutes and 34 seconds, or 10 minutes and 3 seconds per mile. Not a bad pace, though the soreness is kicking in about now — mostly abdominal muscles, because I worked them yesterday and the need to keep good posture puts a lot of pressure on them, as well. In any case, here is what I wrote at the end of today’s Dispatches (a longer take tomorrow on the LBI run in The Cranbury Press):
I will be running in the 35th annual LBI Commemorative 18-Mile Run in Long Beach Island on Oct. 7, which raises money for the St. Francis Community Center in Brant Beach. It will be the first time I participate in a race like this — I’ve done a few 5Ks, including the South Brunswick run last year — but the longer distance is a different kind of challenge.
My goal is to finish without walking and to raise some money on the side for the South Brunswick Human Intervention Trust Fund. To that end, I’m asking readers to help by sending me donations, which I will then forward on to the township’s Division of Social Services. Readers who are interested in donating should send checks made out to the South Brunswick Human Intervention Trust Fund to the South Brunswick Post, P.O. Box 309, Dayton, N.J. 08810, attn: Hank Kalet.
They not only will help local families in need, but will give me the extra motivation I may need to finish the race.
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Got back outside this morning and kept it light — three miles in about 29 minutes. I didn’t want to overextend with a long run on the table for tomorrow.
If I can pull it off, I’m shooting for 12. We’ll see.
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