Workout: Easy Run

Distance: 3.0 miles

Time: 27:44

It’s been a rough week so far with running.  Out of no where my shin has been bothering me, so I’m trying to take it easy this week.  I skipped my speed workout that I was supposed to do Tuesday, and swapped it with the easy run and gym workout I was supposed to do on Monday.  (Monday was my dad’s birthday, so combine that with pool time in the morning and I didn’t get any running in.)

I was able to stay at a nice slow and easy pace by setting my Garmin’s pace alert to yell at me if I went faster than 8:50.  I did a pretty good job…it yelled at me a few times, but I quickly got it under control.  Overall the run was nice and easy…breathing steady, pace pretty much the same.  It was kinda misty and humid though, so that left me a little wet and uncomfortable, but they can’t all be 70 degrees, dry and sunny.  By keeping my pace slow I was able to control the issue with my shin.  A few times it twinged, but it feels like it’s getting somewhat better.  We’ll see what Saturday’s long run brings.  Afterwards I iced my leg, so that should help as well.

Gotta say right now I’m looking forward to keeping this blog going.  I posted one post into the internet abyss on a lonely blog website like 2 years ago about running, and never returned to that site.  Hopefully a new domain, new design, and motivation to raise some money will keep me going.  Hope to hear from you all!

Run on friends!