Weather: Sunny 70 degrees. Absolutely perfect
Time: 3:00 PM (took the afternoon off to enjoy the beautiful weather)
Music: How You Like Me Now by The Heavy
Jessica by The Allman Brothers
Location:
Shoes: Nike LunarGlide
Distance/Pace: I had to do some serious math to figure this out. I'm using Runkeeper and I set it to do a 5 minute warmup and then run. I thought it would start over with a new pace and distance after the warmup. I thought wrong. So, here's the screen shot. The first 5 minutes were walking though. So I went .31 miles walking for five minutes. That means I went .72 miles running in 6:24. So I think that means I was running an 8:53 mile. Right?
Running Partner: Mollie. Also, some Dude-ish looking guy was lapping the track at the same time I was. As an avowed Dude acolyte I did not know quite how to feel when I saw someone looking a lot like El Duderino on running lanes rather than a bowling lane. On one hand, I thought it was pretty cool that I was keeping the same distance from him the whole time which made me feel like I'm not the slowest land mammal outside of Blank Park Zoo. On the other hand, the Dude kept abiding around the track long after I was done. I definitely felt out of my element.
How it Felt: Much better. Unfortunately, I'm afraid I changed too many variables to know what accounted for it feeling so much better than yesterday. I am certain that not eating the ribs of four small hogs less than an hour before I ran definitely was a wise move. The sunshine generally makes me feel better about life so that might have contributed to me feeling better about spending 6:24 of that life doing something that in every other sport is considered a form of punishment during practice. I drank quite a bit of water during the day today so I was feeling more hydrated than the last two nights. Also, I was wearing more shoe today than before. I'm planning on putting a whole shoe post up here soon so I won't go into too much detail about it here but I felt better in the shoes while I was running today. However, as soon as I was done, my shins and lower legs felt way worse immediately. According to a guy I talked to at Running Wild in Coralville the other day, it's because I don't need any stability in my shoes and what I have in the Lunarglides is actually pushing my feet out which is causing pain in my outer calves/shins. Maybe a more neutral shoe will be the right combination for me.
See ya tomorrow.
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