Have I mentioned that I'm starting this training program in the middle of a heat wave? 79 degrees at 0645.
Today was a scheduled run of four miles, and I wanted to get out early because of the heat. By "early", I was thinking somewhere around 0530, but my brain said getting up then on a day I don't have to be in work was not what it had in mind.
The route was up Old Freehold past High School North, with the original intent of just going til the app told me I'd hit two miles, then turn around. Around a mile and three-quarters, I made the impromptu decision to detour into a local development, and ran around that for about a half mile, then back down OFR. When I got to Lilac, I hung a left, and used the decline to rest up, hoping (and failing) to finish the run before I got to the corresponding hill at the other end of Lilac towards Mapletree. (Of course not.) Not til I got to OFR and Mapletree did I reach the end. I walked the rest of the way home, another 15 minutes, to cool down. Heart rate immediately post-run was 172, then 132 at about five minutes.
Today's pep talker was American marathoner Kara Goucher. British marathoner Paula Radcliffe told me I ran my fastest 5K to date.
Making progress.
Today's run.
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