20 December 2014

Today was the day scheduled for this week’s Long Run. Recall that I’m repeating training Week 5 of base training; the schedule calls for a 10 mile run; so, I added the 1 mile WU and ran ten, easy paced miles…but, at the end of my training run, since I was about 1 mile from home, I continued to run until I returned to my starting point (aka, home).

Endurance Running – Base Building, Week 5 of 13 Weeks, Day 4 of 4 Days

The day was cool and windy (~55ºF) and the sky was overcast–a good day for a Long Run! I planned to run about 11:00/mile pace and believed that should be no problem, since I had planned to run both steep hills; in fact, I actually walked from base to crest of the second steep hill!

Today, I took my camera with me and there were a few deer and a roadrunner, which crossed in front of me; but, it took so long getting the camera out of my pocket that the deer had long disappeared into the dense foliage and, well, the roadrunner had run into someone’s yard and disappeared as well…maybe next week I can snap a few photos of wildlife.

Trying to get fit and to keep fit! Who would think that running can be fun!!!