Daily Archives: Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Run 23, 2010 … on the relative abundance of bad, good, and average days…

Today’s run was 11 km on the indoor track and I felt really bad going into it. It took me 14 laps before the majority of the pain I felt began to disappear. I started out with 3 laps, the first walking, the second a slow easy run, and the last one was also a walk with a pause for some serious pre-run stretching. After my 3 lap warm-up I began my 14 lap ordeal. As I began running, I thought to myself: This is going to take forever! During the winter, I do a total of 50 laps indoors every Wednesday. During these indoor track runs, I try to run at least 10 km as a speed run. It allows me to escape for one day the rigors of winter running outdoors. Anyway, I still felt very very sore and fragile after last Sunday’s 21 km run outdoors, not … Continue reading

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