11/10/13 Sunday November 10, 2013 (9 mile run)

I ran from about 3:20pm today to about 5:05pm, or about 1 hr and 45 minutes.  The Seattle 1/2 marathon is 3 weeks from today.  I made it three times around Greenlake just as it got dark, and I was not motivated to push it any further as I didn't feel all that great.  My arches and particularly this time the R arch started acting up about 45 minutes into the run.  Stopped twice to stretch which definitely helped for awhile.  The last couple of weeks now have been R arch, last week L, now R this time.  Partially I have to take some responsibility for lack of good warm-up today and during the week I did not push mobility and lacrosse ball on the arches as much as I should have frankly.  Started hitting the lacrosse ball this evening and will make more of a concerted effort to do so all week until my next run, which I hope will help.   Frankly I am well beyond the mileage I actually "enjoy" for running which is about 3 miles, and I am not really interested in this other than I have made it this far and can see that with a couple of ok weeks for running I will be fine and able to do the 1/2 marathon safely.  I am already looking forward to dropping the running out of my training and just continuing to focus on kettlebell skills and improving strength which is absolutely where I want to spend my training time.