Permission to walk

I woke up tired this morning. Ok so that's kind of par for the course lately. It is what it is. I jumped ahead to this evening to think about running after work. (Not a good idea when you're tired already but if you can figure out a way to control my wandering brain let me know... like now! LOL)

Anyway the point of this ramble is that I gave myself permission to walk. I keep forgetting that I can do that. So when I arrived home, still tired, I dressed for a run with permission to walk and ended up running three quarters of the distance.

Until next time.... :)

Getting by with a little help from my friends

It's been three weeks since I ran. No excuses. I just haven't been doing it. Today I went to Betzwood to see who would show up for an informal USAFit/Philly spring run. Altogether there were 5 of us. We chatted for a bit and then started out. I assumed I'd be plodding along alone as one of our group was walking and the other three are typically much faster than I. As it turned out the three other runners were not in any hurry and decided to keep pace with me. That was very kind of them for sure. I had an absolutely wonderful time. Three miles went by before I even realized it. On the return trip we went a route I had never done completely before. It was really nice and I look forward to adding it to the USAFit/Philly routes this year.

The only downer was my knee. The same one that I fell on (hard) walking around Quebec last weekend. I'm not sure if there is relation but after about 5 miles it hurt a lot .. a shooting pain. If I walked it would subside but start up again as soon as the pounding of running started again. I'll have to be careful with it and test it out later in the week.

2 miles on Sunday

Not very exciting except that I did it. I felt a bit stiff for the first 5 minutes or so but once past that I more or less sailed through it. I stopped there knowing that I had much to do in the way of yard work this morning and an afternoon date with some friends. Still it I have 8 miles for the weekend!

6 mile SPRING run with USAFit/Philly friends

Today I met Angie, Doreen, Kristie and Megan at Oaks at 8:30. Doreen planed 15 miles for the day. I was hoping for 6. We ran out to the three mile marker and turned around. Megan, Kristie and I went back to zero and then back to our starting point for a total of 6. It was great to catch up with them. Angie and Doreen went on past zero. I'm not sure if they made their 15 or not. I hope so. We were passed by Bob and Nicky who are much faster than us and had started at 8.

With luck I'll get out for a few more tomorrow before the rains return for tomorrow night and Monday.

90 minutes and no fatigue!

Finally! (knock on wood). I was able to put in a quality workout the gym today. 90 minutes total and I felt great throughout. 20 minutes each on the bike, elliptical and treadmill with back extensions and stretches in between.

Now if I could just get outside to run.

I probably could have run outside today. It was flurrying and cold though and I needed a good workout. I figured the gym would allow me to get some good time in after such a long layoff without the added issue of being cold and uncomfortable and dodging snow banks.