Brooks update / Running

Just received a email from Steve from Brook ID program saying
"Sorry for the radio silence and thank you for your patience. We have run into technical difficulties in setting up your Brooks ID account, discount, and free product on BrooksRunning.com. We expect to have your account and discount working by end of this week. Your free product code should be ready by the end of next week. We apologize again for the delay and any inconvenience. We will send another email when we have an update. Thanks for your understanding."
-I can't wait to be able to start ordering the best running gear in the world again. I'm already making a list off of Brooksrunning.com website of what I'm going to get!!!

I'm starting to feel better after my 2 1/2 days of having Food Poisoning, I got in another 12 miles today. My first run was nice and easy 8 miler at 6:39 pace which is pretty easy, just to get my legs feeling better after yesterday I didn't know If I would be able to walk today. I was really sore in my Quads/back/stomach/head/neck from getting sick and my fabulous Idea yesterday to do a 12 miler in the morning then 3 mile at night. However, today at the beginning I was just a little sore in my quads but I think most of that was running on the slushy snow. The second run was a lot better and I took it easy again with a 4 miler up by Baker College. Tomorrow I'll probably just go nice and easy again and try to get around 10 miles. This weekend I might try and find a low key race if the weather is halfway nice and not snowy.
--Run Happy

**** Just got down watching U of M vs. Michigan State Basketball game and it was a pretty good game. Luckily U of M was hitting a lot of 3 pointers with the biggest one at the end by Stu Douglass which sealed the game **** Hopefully this is the turn around point for both the Basketball and Football team vs. Michigan State !!! Go Blue!

Start of 2011

Hello again, I'm going to try and do this blog again. It's been a long time sense I've wrote on here.

I've been running smarter and better then I've ever had before. I'm not running a ton of miles but I'm more consistent then I have been sense back in college which is almost 3 years now. I ended up 2010 with 2,929.5 miles which is the second most miles I've ever had. It's been almost 2 years sense I've been injured (knock on wood). I haven't really looked to much into it yet but I want to try to run a marathon this year. The first one I just want to finish because I know if I go for a certain time I will "die" and I know mentally I wouldn't be able to do another marathon.
I'm also really excited to be running for Brook ID program (PACE), Second year with brooks Id but first on the PACE team. I hope I can inspire more and more people because Brook running is the best shoe I've ever ran in. I am also running for GU energy which is exciting because with training for a marathon you need good recovery after each run and on the long run and hard workouts the Gu gel helps so much. I hope everyones 2011 year is going well and please follow me if you want on twitter and facebook....(johnsonxc) Run Happy!!!

Long Run

Today was long run day, I always dread Sunday morning. I knew this meant I have to run alone and I have to go at least 11 miles. Then once I get done I feel the great. Well today I wanted to get in 13 miles, so I did my 6 mile loop that goes by my house then continued into my 7 mile High school loop. I felt great half way, so I decided that I would get a tempo run. The tempo was a 2.5 miles and I must of been going 5:45/mile or so. I was feeling the lactic acid build up , so I think it was a little to fast. I want to get ready for my half marathon for the end of march. I got up by the high school and then I hit the windy part and I just wanted to be done with the run. I remembered the article I read in Runners World about Kara Goucher the other day and how Salazar her coach tells her different words like fighter , and I actually though of that on my run and it helped me fighter past the pain of the tempo and wind. Once I got to were I new I could finish all the mental part was easy. I've always trained like a half-marathoner while in college with averaging 70-90 early season and 80-110 during summer but now that I am getting to actually race a half, It's pretty tough getting in the hard V02 workouts.
I finished the run and felt great, probably could have done another 2-3 more miles but I didn't want to force anything so I ended it at 13 mile (1:21:25) Pace 6:16. I wore my Playmakers jacket and Brooks switch shoes.
Later
Brandon

Me, Myself and I

Hello everyone, this is my first blog and I'm going to dedicate it to get back to running fast. I plan on writing about my training goals, training runs, races, my daily workouts and the difficultly I may I have. I'm going to let everyone know right now I am a terrible speller so there will be spelling errors so I apologize right now.

I want to start off with a little info about myself. My name is Brandon Johnson, I am from around Lansing Michigan. While in high school I was ok runner for averaging 20 miles a week. I really didn't care till my junior year of high school when I broke 5 min in the mile. My Personal records were 17:10 (5k cross country), 800 (2:04) Mile (4:40) and 2 mile was 10:55. Then I went off to Saginaw Valley State University were I feel I didn't deserve to run because a 4:40 miler should be running in college but I guess I improved and by my junior year I got a scholarship for running and ended my college running with a 4:25 mile, 8:41 (3k) 15:03 (5k) 25:38 cross country 8k, 31:10 outdoor track 10k personal records. My junior and senior year we qualified for cross country nationals and placed 5th and 11 th as a team. Now I've been injured the last 2 1/2 years and i'm trying to get back into it slowly and hopefully healthy. I've been slowly getting up the mileage and doing tempos and fartlek and trying to get up the strength. (I'll talk more about that later in a different post.)

I also am a Cross Country coach at my local high school and I love it. I want to help these kids improve and hopefully they will get to experience what I got to in college athletes and possible get a running scholarship. I've been at OHS for two years now and I've had 3 different student athletes qualify for states one being All-State two straight years. Last year the girls team was 1 point away from qualifying for states which was a killer but hopefully it will give them a huge goal to go after. It's been at least 5-7 years sense the girls made states and it's been 15 + for the guys. I just got offered the Middle school Assistant coaching position also, so that will help with getting them ready and stealing them from other fall sports haha ...at least I hope I can !!!.

I also run for a few different stores/companies the last couple years. First Playmakers shoe store in Okemos Michigan , It's been in runners world and few other magazine as a top running store in the country. I recently been getting some help fro Gu energy and Brooks ID program. Oh, I almost forgot, I wear test shoes for Runners World which is awesome because you all know shoes are really really expensive.

Well I think that pretty much everything about me in terms of running, Got to get some rest for tomorrows long run.
Peace Brandon