Month: September 2020

Warm day today, so it was a better training run to get out in the sun instead of running at 5AM. Early morning is great (gets the started right) but mid-day sun and humidity are more of a workout.

Distance: 5.3 miles. Target pace: 9:10; actual: 9:22. Target weight: 147.3; actual: 148.6.

Getting back into the daily habit of early morning (4AM) runs is, let’s say, “a bit of a challenge.” It does get easier though. I think we’ve all become a bit soft with the pandemic stay-at-home we’ve been forced into. There isn’t such a rush to “get up and go” since we don’t really “go.”

Distance today: 4.32 miles on a relatively flat course. Target weight: 148.0, actual: 149.2. Target pace: 9:10, actual: 9:08.

First “official” day back to training after taking a break to let a stress fracture heal. I’ve run some to test it all out. No issues. It’s so much more enjoyable to run (relatively 😉 pain free.

Since I couldn’t run for about nine weeks, I decided to put in miles on my racing bike. I read several articles about what to do while healing and all recommended hitting the bike. Apparently bike training doesn’t negatively impact a healing stress fracture. Riding up to 15 miles on a rolling hills course is a good workout. Now that I’m back to running I plan to mix in some cross-training bike miles.

Distance: 6.85 miles on a rolling hills course. Weight: target: 148.2, actual: 148.8. Pace: target: 9:50, actual: 9:46.