Highlight of the Week: Enjoyable running weather.
Monday | September 21, 2020: 2.3 m walk (w/Steven)
Tuesday | September 22, 2020: 10 m run
Run location: Pine Dunes Lolli, Temp: 53°/56°, Time: 1:56:56, Pace: 11:41 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: great
Wednesday | September 23, 2020: strength + 4 m run
Run location: McDonald Woods, Temp: 77°/76°, Time: 47:53, Pace: 11:58 avg, Difficulty: medium, Felt: okay but a little meh
Thursday | September 24, 2020: rest
Friday | September 25, 2020: 7 m run
Run location: Pine Dunes x2, Temp: 59°/60°, Time: 1:21:55, Pace: 11:42 avg, Difficulty: easy, Felt: good
Saturday | September 26, 2020: 12 m run
Run location: Pine Dunes (x2) + VP Woods, Temp: 64°/68°, Time: 2:25:00, Pace: 12:05 avg, Difficulty: easy/medium, Felt: good in the beginning, tired and sore toes at the end
Sunday | September 27, 2020: strength + 4 m run
Run location: Lake Andrea, Temp: 70°/72°, Time: 44:12, Pace: 11:03 avg, Difficulty: easy-ish, Felt: good, but hot and thirsty
Notes:
- A combination of puzzle butt and a 10 mile run Tuesday left me really stiff Tuesday afternoon, all day Wednesday, and in to Thursday, so I dropped my 3-days-in-a-row running goal. That didn’t last long. Ha. Maybe I will go back to Tu/Wed/Fri/Sat/Sun run schedule.
- I usually reach a point midway through summer where I just cannot get out of bed early to run anymore. This year, it’s happened much later, but it’s still making me feel the same – guilty for sleeping longer, even though I need it… and why force myself to run in the dark anyway?
- But when I do get up and run before work I am LOVING those crisp fall temps. What a delight! I feel so grateful for the weather we’ve been having. (And even my runs after work in hotter weather have been okay since it’s breezy and the dew point is lower.)
- I was super sore again at the end of the week. It’s probably from – two long runs, all the puzzling, and spending a lot of Saturday going through boxes in the basement. Ouch. My massage in early October cannot come fast enough!
It is sobering to hear what an impact doing puzzles is having on you physically! That is a bummer. Do you think there is any way you could adjust the way you do puzzles so as to have less discomfort?
Yeah, if I sat at the kitchen table! But then I would no longer be spending time with Steven (in the living room watching a movie), so I am not sure I will do that! I should probably take a break either way.