September (2016) Running Challenge

9/1 - 7 miles
9/2 - 6 miles

13 out of 115 miles



Beautiful morning 66F and breezing. When I opened the door and walked out it was cold ha ha

All of the data available to me which I analyzed meticulously said I was not recovered enough today so the plan was another easy recovery run.

OK, truth be told it was one data point from my Garmin watch's Recovery Advisor. But it was definitely correct as I was stiff on that first mile, and did probably as much walking as running on the last mile. So the actual "running data" validated the Garmin.

Rest day tomorrow. Then an attempt at a "long run", whatever that may be at this point. I'm going down a familiar 8 mile out and back route, so maybe 8 miles if I have a great day.

9/1 - 2 miles
9/2 - 2 miles

Total 4 of 50 miles

Im in Im starting slow though, I want to do 15 miles. Struggling with fluid retention in my legs so I know there will be some days I cant run so I want to make this maintainable.

4.5 miles last night for the first run of the month. The first 1.7 miles were with Kody, my lab, and the last 2.8 miles were solo as I ran to the auto mechanic to pick up my car that had to be fixed.

Goal progress:
4.5 of 120 miles

The run went great, with a pace under 9:00 when running solo, but in the last 3 blocks the niggling pain I had in my calf muscle turned into a sharp pain. I've have this niggling pain since last week when I had two long runs. I'm grateful it's just a muscle strain and not my achilles. I had planned an 8 or 9 miler tonight but will skip it and hope I'm good to go on Saturday morning for a short one.

For you USA folks, any plans for the holiday weekend? We'll be heading for the lake on our boat and spending the three days sailing. Weather looks great though some possible showers on Monday. Hope to get in some lakeside runs at least a couple of days but won't sweat it if I don't.