<p>I think we’ll just go with 2 miles today and an hour of tennis.</p>
<p>My outside run: cold but I dressed warmly enough (though I overdressed but no), though I was thinking of putting on my running mittens. I ran into a pit bull off leash. So I stopped. The dog ran up to me and jumped on me. I stepped back and let it fall to the ground. The owner grabbed it by the collar and hauled it out of there. It rained a bit. It wasn’t windy most of the time but it did get very windy a few times. I was on my way back when I spotted a huge dog doing #2 on a lawn so I took another route. So yes, rain, wind and dogs today.</p>
<p>BCE, I carry a product called StayShield to protect Sabadog from off leash dogs. I never want to rumble with a pit. The product is citronella and avoids the less desirable after effects of a pepper spray. </p>
<p>Great run, Deborah and Bunsen. I always miss something/someone on my iPad. Just adjusted live strong to reduce from 2 lbs to 1.5 lbs lost per week. I’m just too hungry at less than 1000 calories with the increased exercise.</p>
<p>BC, maybe the time has come for your Nike “dividend reinvestment” - in a treadmill. My Precor was one of the better investments we’ve made. Huge positive NPV, considering our nasty winter weather and my desire to keep running.</p>
<p>MOWC, I ran a fifth of the distance you did today, inside, and I’m wiped (true, I didn’t sleep much last night, but still). You are <em>amazing.</em></p>
<p>iDad, I hope the rest day helps and tomorrow you wake up ache free.</p>
<p>Great runs by everyone. MOWC - sounds like a nice award. Tried kayaking tonight and promptly capsized it. So did a mini triathlon today with cycling swimming and kayaking.</p>
<p>Went for a walk this evening. Decided to put the pedometer on and see how many steps I took. I registered over 10,000 steps on my walk that lasted 1:50. Problem is the pedometer says I walked 5.03 miles while Google Maps says I walked close to 7.2 miles! Gonna have to figure out what’s up with the pedometer!</p>
<p>The tricky part would be where to put it along with the amount of noise that these things make. Figuring out how to run outside would be a lot more practical and probably more interesting. I have a window into the street and woods at the office and the YMCAs have people working out but I’d just have a wall to stare at in my basement.</p>
<p>It’s 42 degrees outside right now. I guess I should go out for at least a short run.</p>
<p>Hops, my pedometer and google never seem to agree either. I could be all wet on this, but I suspect the pedometer is calculating on motion/steps but perhaps doesn’t understand terrane or occasionally takes little rests ;)</p>
<p>For example, it gives a different reading on my hill/trail almost every day, depending on my speed, and whether or not I’m on snowshoes or the microspikes, etc. Some days it varies by as much as 30%, but its the exact same trail/hill combo every time. And one day on its mapping feature it actually had me walking on water (Said water is a large river down the hill and across the road from the forest I was in.)</p>
<p>Safe to say no one will ever reconstruct a crime using recordings from this pedometer :)</p>
<p>38 degrees this morning in the Poconos. I need to get back to the South! 2.7 miles. Legs tired but very little soreness. Surprising. Must be because of the forgiving surface and the Hoka clown shoes.</p>
College friend and son are visiting - way too many restaurant meals. Really 3 pounds in 2 days? I did go to the gym yesterday and spent the rest of it on my feet at museums.
<p>I see now that my wording reads differently than it did in my brain when I was doing the writing. KMC’s post made me think about a map that was fresh in my mind, the one of the area where the I-5 bridge section collapsed. I’m glad there weren’t more people injured when it went down.</p>
<p>Another map I will be taking a closer look at soon is the one for the 5K I’m doing in June. I hope there’s nothing too unusual about it.</p>
<p>So… I go to run my 10k race. I start off good, the first 5k was awesome. I discovered the magic that is gu chomps. Cool, sunny, I felt really good. I was wearing cute stuff.</p>
<p>Around mile 3.5 I feel a pain somewhere in the achilles area. I continue running for another mile, all uphill, and I’m making such good time, but the pain is getting worse. I stop to see if I can stretch it out, I run a little, it hurts a lot. I have to make a decision. I bailed :(. But there I am, 1.5 miles out and nothing to do but walk back. </p>
<p>It feels really bad when everyone is trying to encourage you to keep going, (“You can do it! You’re almost there! Keep running!”) when you just want to cry, because it’s another injury, and you know how long it’s going to take to come back.</p>
<p>We all know that you’ll get the injury fixed and come back again. And you did get in the 4.5. It seems to me that everyone here has dealt with at least one injury in the last year and some of them are chronic and we just have to manage them. With each injury, you learn a little more about your body.</p>
<p>I am sorry, blankmind. That has to be disappointing! Even though your mind was willing, sometimes your body just won’t cooperate. I hope it’s not too serious. </p>
<p>Today was my last day of C25K. It took me a little bit to get back into it after my graduation hiatus, but today I ran 4.13 miles that included a monster hill (or at least monster to me). I saw Runner’s World had a running streak challenge and immediately thought of MOWC - they want you to run at least a mile a day from Memorial Day to the 4th of July. I thought, I can do that!</p>
(Said water is a large river down the hill and across the road from the forest I was in.)</p>