I ran at about the same time today as I did on Monday, but for my ‘Wednesday’ schedule it was significantly earlier. I heard a Ham mention that it was raining pretty hard where he was as he was going to the gym, and knowing that it is supposed to rain today, I decided that now would be a better time to go for the run than latter. I ccan always take a nap later on and get rested up for my overnight at work. I’ll only have one sleep cycle between now and my next run, but it will be about 44 hours away, so that should work out ok.
I grabbed the foretrex gps today, somewhere in storage I have a forerunner 201, but I have never gotten a good sync to a computer with it, which I do get out of the foretrex. The down side is that the foretrex really isn’t designed around exercise, but I’ll at least be able to get the tracks and hopefully be able to post a link to a .kml file with an embeded google maps page as well. We’ll see.
I started on mostly the same path today as I took on Monday. However when I came out of the General Mills nature preserve, the first place I could take a right, I did. It wasn’t quite as much help as I would have liked, because that street immediately turned back to the left. Oh well. I took another right at the next intersection, which put me back on Monday’s route. However where I turned left to start my path back on Monday, I continued on for another 2 blocks before turning left today. When I got to the end today, I was pretty much at the same point that I ended on Monday. Which means that I ran just a bit further today than Monday, which I think is a good thing. I’m not about to go out and run the route a second time, but I’m begining to feel like I could possibly go a bit longer, perhaps run one more 3 or 4 min portion. In other words, I’m feeling OK at this point.
I got in and immediately walked the dogs, then fed them.Yesterday I took each of them out for a walk around the block. The one that people immediately think of as likely to be a good running companion, my lab, probably never will run very well again. She was hit by a car as a pup, and tends to drag her left front foot. She’s also 11 years old, which puts her pretty close to the end of her expected lifespan. She’s still bouncy when she gets excited, and the foot dragging really only happens when she’s tired, so I’m hoping to get her in a bit better shape by walking her on my off days. We only went around one of the neighborhood blocks, and she was pretty much worn out for the next couple of hours. Not to say she wasn’t willing, but I knew that she needed to get some rest.
My other dog is an American Eskimo. We took a longer walk, for a number of reasons. He’s smaller, so while he is 2 years older than my lab, he’s still in better shape age wise. Mostly though he was nearly always running the retractable lead out to it’s full length. We ended up walking about a mile, and he was still ready for more. Once I’ve finished the 9 week course, I’m thinking of adding a couple of build up days into the mix for me to bring him up to possibly being a running companion. During his walk before he ate this morning, he did something I haven’t seen either of them do in a long time. He took off running pretty much the length of the dog run, looped at the end and ran nearly half the way back then walked back up to the end to wait for us to get there to go in. It’s pretty good to see him get excited like that. Perhaps the walk did them both some good.
One difference about today’s run, vs. Monday’s, is that I didn’t think much about next week during the run. When I started the workout, there was a very light rain. I wouldn’t even call it a drizzel. The rain drops were larger, but very infrequent. Lot’s of dry spots where tree leaves had caught the rain, and no pooling at all. As I was approaching the General Mills preserve, even that died off, and by the time I got to my turn around, I was running on dry pavement. As I got to the end of the workout it was doing the light rain thing again, and I was wondering how things are going to work out weather wise on Friday. I guess I am at the point of saying that Next week will take care of itself.
Ok, after playing around with things, here is the map with my route for today. Ignore the first 4 points, I assure you I never got up to 45 miles per hour. WordPress apparently does not like iframes, so feel free to follow the link, or not. If you would rather, you can paste the kml url from my sebsite to maps.google.com’s search field, and will get pretty much the same thing. http://www.beresourceful.net/~rusty/c25k/April29.kml
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