Rest Day

Friday's are rest days, so no running for me today.

My leg is feeling a little better, so I will be able to run tomorrow.....although I will have to get up pretty early (on a Saturday, yuck!) to do my run. I want to try to run 6 miles in the morning, but I have an ALR meeting on Saturday at 8:00 AM.

So, I guess I'm getting up around 6:00 or so to get my run in and be back in time to shower, get dressed and ride my motorcycle to IHOP for breakfast.

Oh, well......

Today's stats:
Ran: 0 miles
Weight: 251 pounds

OOohhh, the pain!!!

Ok, maybe I'm over reacting....I set out to run 4.5 miles this morning but I had to stop at 4 miles today because of pain in my left leg. I'm pretty sure it's shin splints, but whatever it is, it HURTS!

It was supposed to be a long slow run, so I started my run at 5:52 AM an maintained an average pace of 10:29 minute mile. I burned 785 calories! I did manage to keep my heart rate a bit lower during this morning's run.

Today's stats:
Ran: 4.01 miles
Weight: 249 pounds

Here's the summary and path I ran today:

Revamping my Blog - and a new PR!

I haven't done anything with this Blog in almost 2 years. I've been thinking about keeping a public record of my running and weight loss.

So, the natural progression would be to delete the old posts in my blog and start new. I know I won't post everyday, but I will certainly make an effort to post often.

Today was a good day to start my new Blog as I got a personal record in my morning 5K run today: 27:51. That's 8 seconds faster than my fastest time. (Author's note: Yes, I ran much faster when I was in the Marines in the late 80's and early 90's - but now I'm only counting records starting in January of 2007).

The path I ran is the usual 5K distance starting at my house. According to my Garmin 305, I started my run at 5:54 AM and burned 594 calories.

Today's Stats:

Ran - 3.11 miles
Weight - 250 pounds

Here's the summary and path I ran today: