RUN: 10 miles, no time. Time would have been depressing, the focus was on the fact that we were running in fresh untouched snow!! I think it took about 1 hr 45-50 mins?
While the rest of the group was bugging out weds night, a few of us decided we were running anyway. Me EK IT. I had yaktrax and shoe covers, but that did nothing for my ankles--cold snow crust soon filled the shoes and coated me. The temps were mildly cold, the snow reflected a sodium-lamp tinted haze, and the air was a muffled quiet. Just that sckcrunching sound of fresh puffy snow.
So while I sit here hours later, romanticizing this run, let me fill in the rest. My left ankle is stiff and pained. My left shin bone has an ache up by the knee. And one of the toes on my right foot feels like it's burned and raw (maybe a deep tissue blister?). I'm otherwise ok, ignoring that litany of problems. The aches and pains serve as a reminder that I'm ramping up milage fast. Question is, is it too fast? Just how much can I take? I'm fine from a cardiovascular standpoint but where is the structural system? Working it's way up to a stress fracture or just talking to me because of the different footstrike in snow? Just keep it in mind.
Funny conversation today about the picture of chrissie on my desktop. I was asked, is that my idol? I answered yes and explained who it was. He said, "she looks... Uh...". "Hot?" I suggested with a laugh. No, he said, that's not hot. She's sinewy. I look again at the picture. Yes she's very very lean. Veins everywhere, muscles defined, I don't see sinews but I get the idea. Too thin, too defined. I look at the picture and I see focus, form, and FAST!!!! Chrissie is my idol I guess. My version of a celebrity.
I get a lot of comments, but I've never been called sinewy. I guess that's somewhere on the scale I haven't been yet. No pun intended.
Haven't measured the resting HR in a while. 55. Faster than usual, could the short sleep and the long runs.
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