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Training Log for the Week of October 19th 2026

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This is the week that I am going to start focusing on the importance of rest days and incorporating one into each week of training. After googling where I should be at in my running, I found out that my pace decline is far more than what would be expected related to age decline.

Monday October 19th, 2026

I started the week knowing that I have been training all wrong, not from lack of knowledge, but because I need to be outside working out for my mental health. I started today with a rest day sunrise 2.3-mile walk in the neighborhood.

Rest day walk around Heritage Hills Park

AUTHOR

Rich Dafter
Prior to May 1985, I was super fit and super healthy, routinely running between 50 to 70 miles a week. Between March 16th and May 5th 1985, I ran 34:32 for 10K, 57:46 for 10 miles, 53:20 for 15K, 27:38 for 5 miles and 16:26 for 5K. I was 34 years old. On May 17, 1985, at around 5:00 PM on a Friday night, I was driving home with my then five year old daughter and we hit a van broadside. The van had been stopped in the left lane of a four lane road with its left blinker on and unexpectedly made a right turn out of the left lane directly in front of us. That accident, although we both survived, in an instant, ruined my health and changed my life. On Sunday, May 19th, I ran the Midland Run 15K (which I had run and eventually would run or try to run, 13 years in a row) and ran 53:03.

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