Stabbing and fainting

On Friday, 3/27/15, I was pulling weeds in the backyard.  I was using a weed digger to help me. 

 

 

I accidentally drove one prong of the weed digger forcefully into my thumb right next to the thumbnail. 

 



 

I immediately applied direct pressure and I stopped the bleeding.  Then I was nervous to remove the direct pressure becasue I felt like the skin would peel back from the puncture wound and it would start bleeding again and it would hurt.  Once in the bathroom I took the direct pressure off.  It bled a little bit.  I started to feel nauseated so I got over the toilet to throw up, but nothing came out.  I repeated this again with the same result.  So I sat back down on the toilet.  Then I felt like somone had tied my legs up in a knot, and my nose was in pain.  Then I starten to wonder why I was on crumpled up in a ball on the floor and my face was on the ground.  Then I started to realize that I had fainted while sitting on the toilet and my forward leaning momentum had carried me to a crashing thud face first on the tile floor.  My upper body skin was clammy yet covered in sweat.  I think the adrenaline dump of being in pain and thinking about my thumbnail being pulled off caused me to pass out.  Luckily I only came out of that with a cut across the bridge of my nose, a tender nose and cheek bone and either whip lash in my neck or some sort of soreness there. 

Running Report

03/26/15 Thursday
Ran three miles yesterday close to an average of 8.53 pace.


Week 14 miles
Month 60.5 miles
Year 157 miles






03/27/15 Friday
Ran three miles today nice, easy and relaxed.  Average pace of 10.07


Week 17 miles
Month 63.5 miles
Year 160 miles

Running Report 3/25/15

Ran three miles today.  Goal was to do it at 8.00 min pace for a total of 24.00 minutes.  Half mile splits are as follows:

1. 3.54
2. 3.53
3. 3.58
4. 4.00
5. 3.52
6. 3.57

Total time 23.23 average time of 7.52 per mile.  Heart rate about 30 seconds after finishing was 132 beats per minute.  I never take my heart rate right at the finish, because I am ususally to tired and out of breath.  I walk to the same spot every time and take my pulse, assuming there is suffecient light to see my watch.  So, when I report my heart rate it is taken and the same amount of time after running (about 30 seconds).  I am gearing up for the Amerind Foundation Texas Canyon 10K on Saturday.  It will be interesting.  In all of my races this will only be my second 10k, that I can remember.  The first was in High School and I ran bandit and stepped aside instead of running into the finishing chute.  So, technically speaking this will be my first official 10K in my life.  I have done numerous 5K, two half marathons (a third bandit) all three of those half marathons in 2009.  Four Marathons: St. George 2006, St. George 2010, Pocatello 2013, Phoenix 2014.  My goal is to finish with a pace of 8 minutes or faster.  I think it is doable, but still a challenge since there will be hills and twists and turns and 5000 feet elevation as well.  We shall see, it should be fun.  That is my most important goal, to have fun with it because I am not in tip top condition, so I am not looking to set a PR. 

Week 11 miles
Month 57.5 miles
Year 154 miles

Running Report 3/12/15 to 3/24/15

3/12/15 Thursday
Ran three miles on the treadmill total of 27 minutes.  This was a recovery jog.

Week 12.5 miles
Month 18.5 miles
Year 115 miles

3/14/15 Saturday
Ran 7 miles in the morning.  Half mile splits.

1. 4.49
2. 4.42
3. 3.56
4. 4.21
5. 4.15
6. 4.15
7. 4.11
8. 4.20
9. 4.08
10. 4.14
11. 4.07
12. 4.08
13. 4.10
14. 4.24

Total time 60.07 for an average of around 8.33 per mile

Week 19.5 miles
Month 25.5 mile
Year 122 miles

3/18/15 Wednesday
Ran four miles today in the form of Yasoo 800's.  These are running 800 meters, or half a mile, and then jogging a quarter mile in the same amount of time and the repeat.  I did the 800 meters in 3.30 and then I would jog a quarter of a mile.  I did five of those.  They were all on the treadmill.  For each 800 meters I would increase the incline half a percent.  So .5, 1, 1.5, 2. 2.5.  Wasn't dead tired at the end so I think I need to do at least 8 of these next time or do the repeats in 3.20 seconds or something. 

Week 4 miles
Month 29.5 miles
Year 126 miles

3/19/15 Thursday
Ran five miles today as a recovery jog, although the distance was two miles longer than my normal recovery jogs. 

1. 4..47
2. 4.21
3. 4.09
4. 4.25
5. 4.22
6. 4.22
7. 4.20
8. 4.22
9. 4.22
10. 4.20

Total 43.54 average of 8.347 per mile.  I was really happy with all of those steady splits.

Week 9 miles
Month 34.5 miles
Year 131 miles

3/20/15 Friday
Ran nine miles today as my long run of the week.  my goal was to go between 8.45 and 9.00 minute miles.

1. 3.57
2. 4.09
3. 4.07
4. 4.24
5. 4.07
6. 4.16
7. 4.16
8. 4.13
9. 4.12
10. 4.18
11. 4.13
12. 4.14
13. 4.10
14. 4..52 (about 20-40 seconds slow due to I forgot to hit my watch)
15. 3.31 (about 20-40 seconds fast, see #14)
16. 4.11
17. 4.21
18. 4.30

Total time 76 minutes 11 seconds average of 8.31.  Finished o.k. but the rest of the day my legs were tired, I was out of energy.

Week 18 miles
Month 43.5 miles
Year 140 miles

3/21/15 Saturday
Ran three miles as a recovery jog pushing a jogger with a child inside. 

1. 6.22
2. 5.23
3. 5.20
4. 5.17
5. 4.53
6. 5.05

total time 32.22 average if 10.48 per mile.

Week 21 miles
Month 46.5 miles
Year 143 mile

3/23/15 Monday
Ran three miles.  Focused on intervals, speed up speed down.  Heart rate/breathing up and then done.  Work hard and then recover. 

1. 4.14
2. 4.16
3. 4.18
4. 4.22
5. 4.13
6. 3.17

On the last half mile I decided to go the whole way at a faster speed, which I did.

Week 3 miles
Month 49.5 miles
Year 146 miles

3/24/15 Tuesday
Ran 5 miles.  Recovery run.  Overall time of like 44 minutes or something.  Did this run on the treadmill at .5 percent incline. 

Week 8 miles
Month 54.5 miles
Year 151 miles

Running Report 3/11/15

1. 5.09
2. 4.33
3. 3.44
4. 4.00 (mile two 7.44)
5. 3.55
6. 4.04 (mile three 7.59
7. 3.52
8. 3.48 (mile four 7.40)

Total time 33.09 average time of 8.17 seconds.  Total for the last three miles 23.23 average of 7.51 pace.  Heart rate 30 seconds after finishing 136 beats per minute.

The first mile I used as a warm up. 


Week 9.5 miles
Month 15.5 miles
Year 112 miles

Running Report 3/10/15

Yesterday, Tuesday 3/10/15 I ran three miles on the treadmill.  My goal was to do a recovery jog of three miles at nine minute mile pace, which I was able to accomplish.  .5% incline on the treadmill.


Week 6.5 miles
Month 12.5 miles
Year 109 miles

Running Report

Saturday 02/28/15
Six mile run.  Half mile splits except for the last one which is a mile.

1. 5.14
2. 4.30
3. 4.34
4. 4.42
5. 4.46
6. 4.40
7. 4.39
8. 4.55
9. 4.36
10. 4.33
11. 8.58

Total time 56.12 average of 9.32 minutes per mile


Week 16 miles
Month 42 miles
Year 96.5 miles




Wednesday 3/4/15
Three mile run.

1. 4.44
2. 4.12
3. 4.25
4. 4.18
5. 4.10
6. 3.51

Total time 25.42 average of 8.33  At the half way point I decided to try and run the next three half miles each consecutively faster than the previous one.  I was able to accomplish that. 


Week 3 miles
Month 3 miles
Year 99.5 miles




Thursday 3/5/15
Ran three miles.

1. 4.27
2. 4.16
3. 4.15
4. 4.22
5. 4.13
6. 4.10

Total time 25.46 average of 8.34 per mile.  This run I was trying to run each half mile as close to the same split as possible without looking at my watch, just running by feel.  I didn't know it but I went over the 100 mile mark for the year.  Hopefully I can stay injury free and be consistent in daily running and get to 200 in 4-5 weeks.


Week 6 miles
Month 6 miles
Year 102.5 miles




Monday 3/9/15
Three and a half mile run on the treadmill.  This was a kind of interval run where I would do a quarter of a mile slow and then a quarter of a mile fast.  On the fast quarter miles I would increase the incline by .5 percent each time.  So, .5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, and 3 percent.  The fast was run at a treadmill pace of 6.58 min/mile for the first four quarter miles, second to last quarter mile at a pace of 6.52 and the last one at 6.45 or something along those lines.  The quarter mile slow pace was run from 8.34 to 8.49 or something in that range.  This was a good interval workout to get the heart rate and breathing up and down and up and down repeatedly.  Not sure of my overall time since that is not what I was focused on. 


Week 3.5 miles
Month 9.5 miles
Year 106 miles

Investing blogs

Here are two investing blogs that I follow. 


Smart Passive Income by Pat Flynn.  He has a unique story of how he was blogging his attempts to pass an architectural exam and he found that people really liked his blog.  If you want to try and make money on your blog, I would definitely point you in this direction.  Pat has been there and doing that and he has a ton of free information, podcasts and helps for all kinds of things.  I would recommend reading his story on how he started his first online business.


Bigger Pockets is a real estate investment website that is legit.  No super long sales pitch on how to make money overnight in Real Estate and then an add to buy the DVD for only $199.99 for the next 5 people that call.  I highly dislike those websites and so does the founder Joshua Dorkin.  A lot of community on this website.  I love listening to their podcasts. A lot of regular guys and gals like you and me who want to generate some extra income and possibly some passive income via real estate and over time some of them fire their boss, and become their own boss.


Patient investing,


ChrisTOPHER 

The Shoe Saga

I bought my first Asics Gel Nimbus 12 sometime in late 2009 or early 2010.  I went to Performance Footwear and they had me run on a treadmill and video taped my feet hitting the treadmill.  Then they played it back and showed me how my foot landed and recommended a neutral shoe.  I wanted Asics and I wanted cushion as well so this is what I ended up getting. 

 

Asics Gel Nimbus 12

 

 

 

In Septempber of 2010 I liked the shoe so much that I went back to Performance Footwear and bought the exact same type of shoe.  They gave me half off on the shoe because it was the last one of the 12's because the Asics Gel Nimbus 13's were in stock and being sold.  I ran the 2010 St. George Marathon in these shoes. 

 

Asics Gel Nimbus 12

 

 

 

 

 I had not had any problems with the shoes that I bought so I bought two of the same kind at the same time.  I used these black and blue shoes to train in exclusively for over a year and I think that is what caused my shin splints.  In the future I plan to alternate shoes regularly.

 

Asics Gel Nimbus 14

 

My son called these my shinny shoes.  I wore them for about 30-40 miles to break them in and then I saved them for race day because of their bright neon colors.  I ran the 2013 Pocatello Idaho Marathon and the 2014 Phoenix Marathon in these shoes. 

 

Asics Gel Nimbus 14

 

I wenrt to performance footwear to get some Asics Gel Nimbus 16.  When I tried them on they suggested that I get a EE version, a.k.a. wide.  However the attendant ordered them in a 9.5 instead of a 10 size which I normally wear for running shoes.  That was December of 2014.  They arrived at the store and I went to pick them up around January 21 or so.  When I tried them on they guy that was helping me said they felt like they were not long enough.  So we had to order another pair of Asics Gel Nimbus 16 EE size ten.  Well three weeks later I called the store and they said that they didn't have them.  So they called asics and they said that shoe won't be ready to ship until March.  So they recommend that I get some Asics cumulus or some Brooks Glycerin 16.  So I asked for the Brooks Glycerin and they had to special order those.  By this time I was getting tired of special ordering.  I asked the store to ship them to me when they arrived in the store since I didn't have the time or the desire to drive all the way up to their store to get the shoes to which they agreed.  Since they made the mistake of not telling me for three weeks that my shoes were not being sent I figured they owed me a favor.  Well one day a gal from the store left a message on my phone telling me that my Brooks nitro (or something that wasn't Glycerin) size seven was going to be shipped to my house.  I promptly called the store and let them know that I ordered a Brooks Glycerin 16 EE size ten and that I had no idea about those other shoes and that I didn't want them.  Finally the shoes came in the mail and I have been using them.  I don't like the look at all.  They are light enough.  They are supposed to be brooks top of the line cushion neutral shoe.  So we will see.  In another 100-200 miles I plan on getting another pair so I can alternate shoes every other day.  Maybe I will get a less expensive pair like the Asics Cumulus or something.  I miss the Asics Gel Nimbus 12.  It is frustrating that the companies change the shoes every year.  When you find one that you like you would like to stick with it but you can't since by the time you wear them out they have a new version that they may or may not have made changes on.  Any running injury is lame and shin splints are one of them.  I shouldn't complain to loud because right now I don't have knee pain, plantar fasciitis, or any other running related injury. 

 

 

Brooks Glycerin 16