Two Easy Pieces

Sunday, 5.4 miles
Tuesday, 5.1 miles in :42

Two easy runs, and two observations.

A couple of weeks ago, I noted that my runs were going pretty fast, and
attributed this to all the rest I was getting between running days. Now
that I'm ramping up my mileage a bit, I'm trading speed for distance -
with the expectation, of course, that the speed will be paid back with
interest. I got up to 36 miles last week, and I'm going to back off a
bit this week before taking a stab at 40. I've had some soreness in my
right knee and right ankle that I don't want to push too hard.

Silas has been waking up earlier in the mornings, but not early enough
for me to take him running. The cardinal rule of my morning runs is
that I must get home before Si wakes up, and this rule was broken twice
last week. So today, I found myself getting up at 5:30 just for a
stinking 5 mile run. I did it, though, despite standing in the living
room for a few minutes waiting to summon the will to go out. Much like
Seebo this morning, but I had short sleeves and temps in the 40s waiting
for me. I couldn't escape the notion that I was running away from the
dawn, rather than towards it; I'll have to get up at 5:15 next week if I
want to increase my mileage.

I got home from the run and was able to start my coffee a few minutes
before Si woke up. Victory!