Run Prep 3.

Minor Adjustments and Muscles.

[Photo: Several running opportunities in March]

Wet, cold and icy April has presented some running challenges mixed in with opportunities. My runs started well (5 completed in the first 10 days of the month) but have dropped off due to icy conditions.

Why not run anyway? Just go slower, more carefully?

Anyone who asks those questions has not seen me run.

First, there is no speed that is slower than my current running speed. If I slowed down I'd actually be sitting. And second, if I fell down I'd still be out there somewhere, under an ice-covered bush or shrub. Not a nice thought.

Symbolic Photo: Y Run on Ice?

Goal: I'll get back to running when the sidewalks are safe and I don't have to head outdoors with some kind of alarm system.

Photos from along the way:

 In spite of lost icy days, I'll still hit my runs per week average.

 Last week's mileage was very good. Average speed - 'improving'.

 My second-favourite bridge leads to Baldwin Flats. Go visit!

Though I still hate doing pushups I pushed my way to 1,000 on March 31. 1,200 by tomorrow.

Minor miracle and minor muscles : )

The numbers prove I will be svelte within three years.

Maybe see you on the trails! 

Please link to Run Prep 2.

Photos by GH

Run Prep 2.

There Will Always Be a Headwind.

Put your head into it. Nice and steady wins the day.

Until I got used to the headwind yesterday, my outing was the kind many walkers/runners enjoy least - one step forward, two steps back.

"Quittin'?" I asked myself early on.

"No. You're dressed for the cold. Maybe go for 4 miles instead of 5," I said.

I put my head down a bit and pushed through Harris Park. And by the time I got to Gibbons I was fully warmed up. The wind seemed more manageable and I knew I'd have it at my back on the way home. 

So, I kept heading north until I hit my 2.5-mile-marker, a bench in the middle of Baldwin Flats. I turned and flew home.

 Good start in April w two 'walk/runs' in four days.

 "I put my head down a bit and pushed through Harris Park." 

Wind at the back is where it's at!

Please link to Run Prep 1.

Photos GH