*Week 343*
Salutations, 50+ers! Reasonably OK with the start of the New Year. Despite the frigid conditions, managed to get out the door 5 days and logged 20.4 miles. Still only easy to moderate efforts and no long miles. The log reads as such:
Sun: 4.2 (7:52/mi average)
Mon: 4.1 (8:17/mi avg) New Year's Morning Frigid Group Run
Tue: Off
Wed: 3.0 (8:01/mi avg)
Thur: 4.1 (7:44/mi avg)
Fri: Off
Sat: 5.0 (8:02/mi avg)
Hard to admit that 7:40 pace now counts as moderate effort (in fully winter attire, at least.) Hopefully, the weight will come off and that will slip back in to the easy effort range. I wanted to run 6-of-7 days, but with only 3.5 hours of sleep Thursday night, I just couldn't muster the will power to get out Friday afternoon in the wind and the cold...just wasn't that important to me. Hopefully I'll get back to where it is a priority.
Thanks for the kind remarks from last week, and the suggestion of Altra Torins, Charlie. I have a pair that I had tried out for many runs last year, but found that they were always giving me Achilles problems; I now just use them for walking, and I do like the toebox, that's for sure. I have some Pearl Izuma Road M3's with a similar toebox that seem to work pretty well. Also, I started back to taking Glucosamine sulfate-Chondroitin-MSM combo (3xdaily feels like a lot!) with the New Year. Still not noticing anything much; knees and toes still achy (big toes are probably too far gone, anyways.) Another week and maybe I'll see if there is any change.
Seems the thread has quieted down a bit with the New Year. I guess everyone is back to work. We had late registration last week, and our new digs are still under construction with a ton of "finishing touches" needing to be done to the building and unpacking of equipment will happen once our cabinets have been secured (thankfully, don't need too much for the first few weeks of labs,) but classes will start tomorrow come hell or high water. We'll finally get back over the freezing mark this afternoon (haven't been there for 13 straight days; quite a stretch for this Mid-to-South town.) Even so, I can't promise that next week will see much of a bump in mileage given the typical chaos of the first week of classes, but I'll try. I would really like to get back to regularly logging 7+ mile runs.
OK, that's my report from the Bluegrass. Hope that your New Year has gotten off to a great start. Let's hear what you got!
All the Best!