Archive for March 31st, 2008

An uneventful weekend, so I’ll just do a quickie here for your skimming pleasure.

Saturday was a 5-mile recovery run, which I’m learning to appreciate more these days, now that my quality runs are more purposeful.

Yesterday was 16 on a perfectly beautiful afternoon. Still thinking I have a shoe issue, since my legs, feet or knees begin to feel creaky after about 10, yet said niggles disappear after the run is over. So my mission this week is to find which of the running stores in my area do a full evaluation with a treadmill. When I went to Philadelphia Runners, there was no gait analysis and the salesman was a little unenthusiastic and not very insightful.

As for today, it’s a day of rest, then hopefully a tempo tomorrow, though it’s supposed to be windy – my absolute favorite condition for a hard effort. cough.

Looking ahead to this Sunday is my first mile time-trial, ever. I need to remain ambivalent about it as a barometer of fitness or speed, classifying it only as an amusing thing to do, since a few of my forum buddies will be there. But the chance of it making me all frowny is a definite possibility, despite my good intentions.

I’ve never tried to run a mile my fastest, and have a feeling I’ll be all over the place, too fast, slowing down, speeding up, slowing down. Plus, I’m not doing myself any favors by running a tempo on Tuesday and a speed session on Thursday, but seeing as how my goal 5K is on April 15th and Broad St. is right behind it, I can’t afford to change my schedule for a one-mile jaunt.

Hmmm, come to think of it, if it wasn’t for the forumite get-together, I’d bag it.

Do you hear that Matt? Do we really have to do it?
Signed: Your Attempting-To-Weasel-Out-Of-It Friend,

Flo
(who knows it’s ridiculous to worry about something that’ll take less than 7 minutes out of my life, but here I am doing it) Ambivalent, my ass.