No running this morning, just a walk down the chip-seal road to a small gravel parking lot where I walked on that for the longest amount of time and distance yet.
I'm finding that the same routine as the previous week is working out fairly well. When I swim before work, I always pack my work clothes the night before, so I can change afterwards. As I left home this morning, I shrugged off a small feeling that I forgot something. Swam, and got to work early. Started changing, shirt, slacks, socks, ... shoes... Shoes? I forgot the shoes! Can't really pass off my Achilles sandals as shoes. So I go back home, got the shoes, and came back. 25 mile roundtrip in 45min in morning traffic.
Must be the shoddies' conspiracy.
I think either way is OK. I've been meaning to just do weekly summaries for some time, but the daily reports help keep me motivated.I'll also start posting my runs as I do them, like everyone else on here. Lol. I was a little slow on the uptake there. Sorry.
I've only done a pure gravel run once or twice, but it's not that hard. You just have to relax and go slow. I found it's not very satisfying as a run, because you have to go so slow, but it's pretty cool as a barefoot challenge. If I had a good gravel road nearby, I would run on it once every week or two for the sole conditioning.The idea of running on gravel still scares me.
It's the old adolescent reasoning . . . if a little's good, more must be better!I think all I did was ask about your microruns and then mentioned that I was running 5 days a week and seeing some real gains. Not sure how that got twisted to running 7 days a week... Anyhow, I am curious how you do so I will be reading your reports to see it goes. Good luck man!
welcome home from the dark sideback then she would have got some Darth Vader style heavy breathing That would probably have convinced her I needed rescuing.
Thursday morning.
So I blew off this morning's mini-run, which was going to be 2-3 miles of hills or a tempo run, and my morning bicycle commute. Now I feel really guilty. I'm probably just a little dehydrated but the calf tightness could be from four consecutive days of running, which I think is close to a first for me. I'll try to massage it throughout the day and see if I can get in a mile or two this afternoon, before my next st workout.