Running with Tom

Tom came over yesterday and spend the night. We went to Stan's Taproom last night and didn't get back home until after midnight. I'm definitely no longer a night person. I didn't sleep that well and finally got out of bed around 8:30...after about 6 1/2 hours sleep.

Tom has been running a little longer than me and is in better shape. I told him that I did my 6+ miles on Saturday, but he wanted to try and do around 5 miles today.

When he runs at my house, he loves to run through the park by the lake - the one that's been closed all summer because of the excessive rain we had and the park being flooded. Well, they must have recently opened it and we got to run the lake today. I like running the lake, too...so now I may have to re-map my morning runs to include the park.

However, trying to run so far after yesterday's run wasn't a good idea. My calfs were very sore all day yesterday and started to really flare up during the run. At the 3 mile mark, I sent Tom in a different direction (along Northpark to Westway to Windward) and I took a short cut (across Stewart). I added another seven tenths of a mile and had to walk. I turned off my Garmin. Tom caught up to me and passed me. I walked a bit further and then ran the last half mile....but I forgot to turn my Garmin back on. I ran it - but I won't count it towards my weekly total.


I started the run at 9:28 and burned 711 calories.

Today's stats:
Ran: 3.70 miles
Weight: 250 pounds

Here's the summary and path I ran today: