House stalking

RUN 9.4 miles in 94-ish mins, no garmin

Well I started with the garmin. But since I didn't charge it, it died at mile 1.76.

Another busy day ahead so I was up early for this. The plan was 7 miles, to round my weekend out to 20 total. I toyed with the idea of doing 6.9 miles, but only briefly.

I wrote on my hand the 4 addresses I wanted to run by -- potential houses on my shopping list -- and took off towards LP for some extra mileage. It was in the first loop of LP that the garmin died. This put my plans in a spin for awhile. I started mental-mathing known routes, all concerned about getting my 7 miles.

Honest and for true -- if when I got home I added up the route on MMR and found I was short, I would most certainly go back out around the block to round it up!

So instead of my initial plan, I set onto a known route. I knew 2 loops of LP was 4 miles, and that BP and back was 3 miles. Sounds like a plan!

I wander around the BP area, see my houses, lament the terrible sidewalks, have a brief scare of gut cramps about 1.5 miles from home, sip my diluted OJ, and marvel at how fast it got hot. It was only high 60's/low 70's on Thursday!

And once home, I was surprised at the time -- much more had elapsed than I expected. And the reason? I ran more than expected! I added 2.4 extra miles to my run.

No gut problems, no repeat of yesterday. And another hurry hurry day -- I got home from my run and found a showing request on the phone (the irony that yesterday I carried my phone and got no such messages, then today thinking I don't need it I do get the message!).

One thing to note, is that my left hip is popping still. Not sure if I've mentioned this or not? There's a tight hamstring something-or-other, not sure if it's muscle or tendon or what. I feel it when I bend over and stretch the hammy. And the hip socket "pops" when I walk. Not much of a problem when I'm running, but it's probably the running that's causing it? Or the lack of running? Or a latent race injury?

Anyway, NUMERICS! Haven't done these since the race.
RUN 34.5 miles
BIKE COMMUTE 27.9 miles
WALKIES 17.6
and 1.5 hours of strength training. started that up again.