Day one

Thursday, June 1st.   55 Degrees and sunny.

Rained hard last night.  Trails are soft.  Woke up at 4:58.  Alarm set at 5:01.  Funny how that works.  Hit the rack at 9:15 last night.  One thing about getting up early and front loading your day is that you don’t feel like staying up late at the end.  Slept well.

Spent the first 20 minutes getting ready and trying to convince my body that we have a new system with new priorities and NOW is a better time than 20 minutes into my run…if you know what I mean.

This would actually be the 3rd day in a row I’ve run, but the first two were practice.  I’ve been experimenting with different routes to see how close I can get to 5 miles.  I know all the distances but since I’m taking Buddy out first for a 2.2 mile loop I’m trying to find that 3 mile loop that makes up the difference.

Yesterday came in at 6.2.  This morning came in at 5.6 and just over an hour.  I think I can straighten out some bits and get it to 5.2 ish tomorrow.

The trails and the grass in the meadows are quite wet in the morning.  I’m finding that I’m going to have to rotate shoes every other day.  Wore my trail Mizuno this morning.  They have a very thin, stiff sole with not much padding.  They tend to make my feet hurt if I go too long.  But, for these short runs should be ok if I rotate every other day with the Hokas.  That will give a day to dry – I’d rather not ruin my Hokas by running them wet every day.

Success! My early morning insistence with my bowels meant no stopping on the trails to fertilize nature.  Excellent.

Flushed two beautiful white tailed deer in the meadow.  Everything is so green with all the rain.

Legs felt good.  Have a little hip ache but I think it’s a bruise from face planting on the foot bridge yesterday.

Back by 6:30.  At my desk, showered and shaved by 7:00.

To work!

Chris,