another run, decent pace even.

I tried to post this last night but blogger was having an outage.

The weather was grey, rainy and chilly but I finally decided that running seemed the least sucky of the outdoor training options. This was the 2nd run since foot injury. The foot seems completely fine.

distance: 9.4 miles
route: 300 Virginia Rd to 1200 Lowell Rd in Concord, MA and back again.
time: 76 minutes
pace: 8:05/mile
effort level: moderate. was mostly concentrating on having good form

I was quite happy with the faster pace as compared to last week. I didn't feel like I was putting more effort into the running but ended up going considerably faster. tres cool!

I felt pretty tight afterwards. did some stretching. mostly tight in the hamstrings (no surprise there). during the run I had very little IT band bitching out of the right knee. I could obviously use more time doing leg stretches. :)

In other news I arranged to get access to a local semi-private pond for swimming. Will hopefully have decent weather tomorrow morning so that I can get in some long overdue swim training. I tried connecting with the local Masters swim program at Hanscom AFB, but the organizer guy doesn't check his email or didn't bother to get back to me. Either getting connected to the masters swim organization or the YMCA would be a good idea for having access to a decent pool regardless of my location in the USA. Need to figure out what each option will cost.