Monday: 0
Planned rest day after 19 days straight running, and a minor malady yesterday.
Tuesday: 10
AM: 4 mile easy local roads before work. Good stress-buster before my 7th interview in 3 weeks; hope to wrap this up soon. Also a recovery day after my hard 14-miler two days ago. Everything feeling back to normal.
Another month ... another drop in Prednisone dosage. Yea! No adverse effects thus far. Now taking 1/2 of the maximum daily dosage (10mg) I was using from late summer. I'll see the rheumatologist around Thanksgiving to get the next evaluation and steps from there.
PM: 6 miles late afternoon from Li'l Rhody sponsor Dave's Coffee in Charlestown. Ran with Paul and Justin P before meeting up with three other WTAC Clamshell committee members for deciding 2019 awards for the club Christmas party and 2020 events.
Wednesday: 7
New Haven, CT. Run from downtown to East Rock Park, with a ~400' elevation climb. Ran with my New Haven based colleague, who is also running Boston. Other than the final ascent, I felt really good on today's run. Average pace 6:47, with low 6s final three miles.
Thursday: 7
Barn Island, Stonington, CT. Beautiful weather late afternoon with temps in low 60s and sunny. Unfortunately, my favorite single-track trails are just overgrown and I got cut up many times by overgrowth, mostly in the form of briars. The trails just don't get enough traffic, I guess. Hopefully a hard frost will help, but I might need to go in there with loppers as well.
Friday: 8
'Round the pond.
Saturday: 8
Ninigret run with Muddy. Mostly trails, with some park roads mixed in. Good conversation and catch up.
While volunteering at a paper shredding event mid-morning, an elderly woman asked me if I had gotten clawed by an animal. Hmm? Um, no. Then she pointed to my legs with all the scratches. Ahh. No, just briars from trail running, ma'am.
Sunday: 15
Burlingame solo trail run in light rain. Pretty soaked by the end, but didn't bother me at all. Changed into dry clothes when done and got a hot coffee on drive home. Trails in great shape. Didn't see a single person on the trails this morning.
Weekly mileage: 56
Weekly synopsis: Third consecutive fifty-plus week. Pretty even mix between roads and trails. I'm really feeling great, and got some solid runs in this week. Contemplating running a trail race next week as kind of a tune-up and fitness check for Rhody.
Weekly highlight: It's a toss up between today's 15-miler at Burlingame, and Friday's unplanned "fast" run (8 miles at 6:24 pace), but I'm going with the latter. I know I'm not setting any land speed records, and it wasn't a race, but just felt really good getting in that kind of run without maximum exertion and without any issues.
Weekly lowlight: Ticks. Absolutely disgusting. I've had three different tick diseases, some multiple times, and I sure hope I dodged a bullet this week.
Planned rest day after 19 days straight running, and a minor malady yesterday.
Tuesday: 10
AM: 4 mile easy local roads before work. Good stress-buster before my 7th interview in 3 weeks; hope to wrap this up soon. Also a recovery day after my hard 14-miler two days ago. Everything feeling back to normal.
Another month ... another drop in Prednisone dosage. Yea! No adverse effects thus far. Now taking 1/2 of the maximum daily dosage (10mg) I was using from late summer. I'll see the rheumatologist around Thanksgiving to get the next evaluation and steps from there.
PM: 6 miles late afternoon from Li'l Rhody sponsor Dave's Coffee in Charlestown. Ran with Paul and Justin P before meeting up with three other WTAC Clamshell committee members for deciding 2019 awards for the club Christmas party and 2020 events.
Wednesday: 7
New Haven, CT. Run from downtown to East Rock Park, with a ~400' elevation climb. Ran with my New Haven based colleague, who is also running Boston. Other than the final ascent, I felt really good on today's run. Average pace 6:47, with low 6s final three miles.
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| Nice walk through a village green downtown, as part of my 1-mile walk from Amtrak's Union Station to the building I work in |
Barn Island, Stonington, CT. Beautiful weather late afternoon with temps in low 60s and sunny. Unfortunately, my favorite single-track trails are just overgrown and I got cut up many times by overgrowth, mostly in the form of briars. The trails just don't get enough traffic, I guess. Hopefully a hard frost will help, but I might need to go in there with loppers as well.
Friday: 8
'Round the pond.
- Plan: Run 2 miles easy (7-ish), 4 hard (6:20s), 2 cool-down (mid 7s).
- Actual: Ran 2 miles at 6:45 pace, 5 at 6:10-6:15 pace, final mile at 6:30, for an average 6:24. Just felt great out there today and went with it.
In the evening, I pulled a tick off my head. Ugh. Disgusting, vile creatures. One more reason I'll be happy to get a hard frost. It wasn't embedded, so I'm hoping it didn't have opportunity to pass me Lyme or any other fun tick-borne infestations.
Ninigret run with Muddy. Mostly trails, with some park roads mixed in. Good conversation and catch up.
While volunteering at a paper shredding event mid-morning, an elderly woman asked me if I had gotten clawed by an animal. Hmm? Um, no. Then she pointed to my legs with all the scratches. Ahh. No, just briars from trail running, ma'am.
Sunday: 15
Burlingame solo trail run in light rain. Pretty soaked by the end, but didn't bother me at all. Changed into dry clothes when done and got a hot coffee on drive home. Trails in great shape. Didn't see a single person on the trails this morning.
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| New blazes on North-South Trail. Am I mistaken, or were the former blazes a lighter and more visible shade of blue? |
Weekly mileage: 56
Weekly synopsis: Third consecutive fifty-plus week. Pretty even mix between roads and trails. I'm really feeling great, and got some solid runs in this week. Contemplating running a trail race next week as kind of a tune-up and fitness check for Rhody.
Weekly highlight: It's a toss up between today's 15-miler at Burlingame, and Friday's unplanned "fast" run (8 miles at 6:24 pace), but I'm going with the latter. I know I'm not setting any land speed records, and it wasn't a race, but just felt really good getting in that kind of run without maximum exertion and without any issues.
Weekly lowlight: Ticks. Absolutely disgusting. I've had three different tick diseases, some multiple times, and I sure hope I dodged a bullet this week.
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