RUN COMMUTE!! May goals.

RUN COMMUTE 4.6 miles 48 minutes inbound, ave HR 145, cad 171
RUN COMMUTE 4.4 miles 48 mins outbound, ave HR 135, cad 169

We had a t-storm overnight so woke up to no power. Downed tree in alley near Oregon. This was nice, kinda helped a few goals along. No tea, so drank a few glasses of water and did that first thing. Stayed (kinda) away from phone since it didn't fully charge overnight. And was able to sleep in and rest since run commuting doesn't need quite so much time as train+shower+ride.

So a quiet and dark morning with the dog. Ate oatmeal with butter, banana, yogurt.  Probably too much? Walk the dog in the post-rain atmosphere -- raindrops on leaves and for the dog lots of smells.

Enough small talk, get to the run! I had shorts on with a light long sleeve, but changed to capri tights thinking I'd be cold. Duh. No surprise I was overdressed in a few mins. I had the Camelbak with clothes and lunch packed in, didn't feel to comfy but I lived.

There's construction on I-44 (still ongoing, since last summer...) and after having been detoured on yesterday's bike commute to Vandeventer I knew to avoid that area for chance it was still closed. I took Compton past the old house (my irises getting ready to bloom), through the old neighborhood (the dog park bushes now obscure the fence), and around the water tower on my old route. Cross I-44 at Grand, Lafayette to TGA, to work. 4.6 miles that felt waaaaay harder than it should have.

ETA outbound run. I'm surprised  my HR was so much lower in this run, so going back to look at graphs...it seems my HR was just as high if not higher on the second outbound run, but I walked more and maybe that lowers the average? I did walk more, but not a lot. Maybe a total of a block or two or three summed up? My calf and feet muscles felt fatigued from the Tuesday run still. I might have been better hydrated in the afternoon, I drank a LOT during the day. YAY for run commuting!

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May Goals. You know me and my goals. It's May, and I love me some alliteration. And I love 8's, so I've got 8 M's to work on. My Monster is still here, last night was a WTH type of night. I've had lots of ideas that I keep putting off for no good reason. I'll come up with "Start Today" thing and drop it soon enough. Here goes, no particular order.

1. Monster. Nuff Said.

2. Meditation. Put down the damn phone, turn off the podcast, and enjoy some quiet time. And make it a positive meditation, less mental meandering into the dark side.

3. Muscles. Get back on the strength training train. And it can be flexibility, foam rolling. Could also call this movement, but then I'd just run more miles.

4. Mental. SO talked last night about being at the gym to exercise mental discipline. I actually put this to use on the run in today. I pushed through with a mind over matter "don't walk keep running" and it worked.

5. Miles. Duh. Training plan starts this week. This one obvi.

6. Minimal. Doing my Minimalist Game through May, this morning I threw out a random orange straw that fell out of a silverware drawer. Hope I didn't need it for something...

7. Monk. Get simple. Clear the clutter of phone, brain, stuff, thoughts, etc. Mostly I mean to get off the phone, get away from the counter. Maybe call this Mindfulness?

8. Monarchs! The butterflies will be here soon, get out in the garden for some combination of quiet, phone free, meditative, non-monstery, movement to clear the head.