A new week

ORN: about 4.5 mles in about 43 minutes

Yeesh, it is even dark at the end of the run now. Nice run though, legs fully recovered from the 10 miler on Saturday.

Pesevere.

Long Run with Wooly Worms

ORN: 10.3 miles, 1:34:28, about 9:40/mile or so

What a specacular fall day to run! All winter and all summer I dream of such a day. Full sun, temp in mid 50s, trees turning color, mild breeze. Could not be any better.

The legs are back. After really cranking my R calf two weeks ago in the Half, I'm back to regular running. Originally set out to do 9 miles, and threw in an extra mile just because it felt good.

Winter awaits, though. Saw many, many wooly caterpillars slowly crawing across the trail today. To my knowledge, I didn't squash any but it was a hazardous place for them to be. Typically, the weather holds out OK through early December, then into the deep freeze through February.

For now, I enjoy what we have. And am grateful for it.

Persevere.

Aromas

ORN: 5 miles, 50:13,

The legs are back. Felt good. Intented to do 4 miles, just carried on the Morehouse Spur and did 5. Lost track of time on the way back, good sign. Travel on Friday, do 9 or 10 on Saturday.

Quite a smell of decaying leaves as I ran past Cumberland Woods. Fall is here and winter is not far away. Exacerbated by baseball season ending last night with the awful White Sox winning the whole thing. Tough news for a Cubs fan

Mars looked a dusty orange this morning, not red. Interesting.

Pesevere.

Road running on the Road

ORN: 4 miles (about), 10:00/mile (about), as the sun set

At meetings in Bloomington, IN. As usual, the meetings broke up around 4:30, no dinner plans till 6:30, got in a run late. Ran along 3rd street, along the IU campus, along Frat row on the south side of campus. Lots of traffic and fumes, sure made me miss the clean trails in West Lafayette. But, it was a good run.

Calf feeling better each day. Stretching helps. Actually didn't notice it during the last 3 miles of run. That's cool.

Persevere

First Cold, Dark Run

ORN: 4 miles, 10:30 pace; 43 deg, windy, damp, dark

After running at 5pm yesterday, I was out again 12 hours later. The run felt good. Stretched three times during the run, that helped. Still feel both the calf and, to a lesser extent, the right hammy.

Will take two days off now, as I’m in Bloomington for meetings. Will run again on Thursday morning. Maybe go long on Saturday???

Persevere.

First Run after Injury

ORN: 4 miles, 47min, 11:00 to 11:30

Amazing. Went out not knowing if I could run or not. Gingerly took off. Stretched early, then four times along the run. Amazingly, I could roll forward on the ball of my right foot without hurting my calf…and that’s the first time that has happened in a week since the half marathon.

So I decided to see what I could do. As it felt OK after one, I decided to try for four. Made it to my two mile turnaround and felt fine and ran all the way. No walking, eacy running (see pace!!).

Man, did it feel good to run again. And the longer I went, the looser the calf felt. Still feels fine tonight. Will have to see how it feels in the morning when I attempt another four miles.

Oh, and I wore my $2 running vest. Worked well, both into and with the wind. More on that later.

Persevere.

A steady-state plan

ORN: 4 mile walk. Ran maybe .4 miles.

The pull on my right calf seems to be taking a long time to heal. Which is making me think that the plan I had to run two laps of the Huff is not going to make it…the time was close anyway and I’ll be lucky to get back to decent mileage even by next Saturday.

And so I consulted my Hal Higdon plans today. Eureka. I can toggle between weeks 8 and 9 of the half marathon plan aud infinitum. Speed work each work, 9 miles one Saturday, 10 the next. Right at 30 miles a week.

By so doing, I’m always 6 weeks from tuning for a half marathon and 10 weeks from a marathon. Makes sense. And doable. And I can relax.

Persevere.