Right plantar niggle, and NY as people in Steinberg

Monday 2 miles, late at night
Tuesday 4 miles, with BE at the track

Monday is day 15 of the running streak, I hope this isn't too bad of an idea. "Just one mile" doesn't sound bad until you have a niggle then suddenly this "just one mile" becomes at the same time all-important and all-negative.

It started last week or the week before, I only feel it at the bottom of the heel when I start to run. But now I feel it walking. A mild pain is all. A niggle. I hope. 

Today at the track - a misty cool morning in the time-change darkness. BE talked about a documentary about Hands on Hardbody or something like that - about a challenge to see who can keep their hands on a truck the longest to win it. Also about his population mental thinking about how 1/millionth of the continental US is the size of Forest Park, and 1/millionth of the US population is 330 people - so imagine 330 people in Forest Park. And NYC would equate to 8 people in Steinberg skating rink. This took a few laps to think about!

And was a distraction from my niggle. Ugh. 

Birthday weekend at home, house shopping, NEW MOON

Saturday 1 mile
Sunday 1.5 miles

Rest week? More like stress week. I didn't add on more miles since I was at home and wanted to focus on being with LA, the birthday party for Kaitlynn, and house shopping. 

New moon Saturday morning, Daylight time change Sunday morning. Reset. 

We found a house! 

Weekend home, back to STL alone, rough week

Sunday RUN 1 mile at home
Monday RUN 1 mile with Kaitlynn and James!
Tuesday RUN 5 miles in 60 mins to LP
Weds RUN 2 miles in 22 mins around BP
Thurs RUN 4.4 miles in FoPa
Friday morning RUN 1 mile around BP

My run streak continues, it's all of 10 days so when does it really become a streak? K&J joined for Monday's run, LA was in an exam. I tried to tell them, that 1 mile is farther than they think it is -- but now they know!! They did good, some walking and lots of talking. 

Tuesday morning he left for AA and I left for STL. I came back to an empty house except for M. Ugh. Broke my streak. Ended up feeling sick from dehydration and stress and more and went for a run. 5 miles to LP then to Ephemeris for Amazon pickup. Bought oatmeal to see how it goes. Stuck to 8pm goal!

Wednesday an evening run, more of M, more of it with oats. Ugh. M M and more M. 

Thursday was with BE and EW and a thunderstorm! Felt great.

Today Friday was an easy mile. I'm enjoying the streak. I'm at 13.4 miles now. Was at 17.6 last week, so this weekend I need only... 20-13.4=6.6    Either 1+5.5 or 2+3.5 or some combination this weekend to get 6.6 and stop at 20 miles this week. 

I leave today for some again -- birthday party week and LA is already at my parents. We are ending a week of job interviews on Zoom and housing searches. Crazy

I did a Forest Park loop with walks!

RUN 5 miles and WALK 1.5, as Run 1 and Walk 0.25

This was an afternoon run during a break at work. The first plan was 0.5 mile walks, but I changed to 0.25 and it felt good. And it game me time to run a 5th mile. LA moves out this weekend, so this was also some stress relief.

No issues, relaxed, nice day.

NUMERICS Only RUN 16-17 miles.

I gotta get the bike out, it's like spring outside.

Baba - ganoush, oosha, and yaba (?)

Wednesday RUN 1 mile 12-some minutes
Thursday RUN 4.5 miles in 45 minutes
Friday RUN 1 mile in 11-some minutes

LA and I did the Weds run later in the dark, perfect weather and calm night. Reminded me of overnight trail running.

BE and I did the Thurs run as per Fo Pa usual, another great morning. The conversation ranged from some vegan recipes he's trying (like the 3-can chili), his new morning coffee machine and book reading habit, to a new book he's reading about a comic book writer who wrote an autobiographical comic after his mugging 25-some years ago, to ...I forget, then to my eggplant recipe fail and baba ganoush/babooshka, and baba yaga. And there it ended! A transcript would show the usual random topics we cover.

I wore the HRM for Thursday but it's hard for me to slow someone else down in a run. I feel like I need to keep up. The numbers started out 129, but then the last 3 miles were mid 140s. Still felt good, but this is why I struggle with MAF.

The Friday run we did before work, LA in Tshirt and shorts, me in lined pants and 2 upper layers. Still felt good! I will miss running with him! 

Carbs seem to be working, this run much better!

Monday RUN 1 mile in 12 minutes
Tuesday RUN 4 miles in 50 minutes on track

Monday's run wasn't enough for the chest HRM to "warm up", keep that in mind next time. 
Tuesday's run I arrived a few mins early to get a proper warmup in (skipped that last week). But still my HR was high: 128, 135, 135, 137. It didn't feel that high, but I wasn't going my MAF pace I was instead running along with BE and talking. I'm always hesitant to ask others to slow down for me.

Yesterday I had a feeling in my left calf along the lateral bones, low above the ankle, of a fatigued or tight muscle. It's still there today, but it reminded me to think about the importance of this streak vs the importance of being injury free. I wondered, if I run my 1 mile Monday night, then run Tuesday morning, that's a 36/12 hour rest cycle. If I run Monday morning and Tuesday morning, it's a 24/24. Does  it matter? 

Last night in the 1 mile run I felt like a tiny rock was in my shoe or sock. Feeling it again today, and it again reminded me of the potential to get injured. Even though I've been walking a lot the last few weeks, running is different!

My energy is better, I'm up to 90-99g carbs/day with mixed veg and rice puff cereal and a bit of fruit. Before it was 60g of veg. Huge improvement!

Start of a running streak, end of a low carb test

RUN 4 miles to TGP and a WALK of 2 miles WU and CD

This is the start of my plan going forward for Hennepin - slow and easy increases of training that includes running AND walking. Today after work LA and I started out towards TGP with a walk, after a mile I picked up and started a slow run. I didn't have the chest HRM so no good data. The plan was to loop back in 5 minutes and come back to LA, but he turned around (as planned) and starting running again (I didn't know was planned) and so I got an extra mile running in order to catch him. And it was a stressed last 2 miles because I didn't know where he was, if he was still feeling sick, if we'd miss the start of the 6 pm phone call...oof.

But the extra mile felt OK, no issues. And I did a core workout - as planned!

I've upped the carbs, and had some rice puff cereal. Much less veggies too, I'm trying to balance them out and find a happy zone for my gut and my energy. 

NUMERICS: 4 runs for almost 12 miles, and walking!