December 31, Saturday

End of year 4 on a crisp  New Year’s Eve

Felt surprisingly good today.  Ran 4 Progressive miles today feeling no ill effects anywhere.  I spent about a half an hour warming up indoors today.   I have become able to do a series of drills standing on one leg.   I layered up about four deep before I left because I really don’t like to be cold. After I returned I weighed my wardrobe  and it came up in excess of 8 pounds (lol).  Still started out very slowly. I inserted 5 50 stride pickups each time I came to a slight incline. Afterwards I iced and rolled my feet.

Mile splits;

13:44,    12:01,     11:19,    11;08.     =    48:12

Stats are steady.

HJ

December 30th, Friday

Basically jogged 30 minutes today.  Not much energy in the legs.

Thought of this article as I ran today. (I also cannot stop singing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer while running for the past 3 days. Making me a little crazy.) There is nothing new in this article, but it’s always a good idea to refresh on the most important things.

http://www.runnersworld.com/health/4-things-we-can-all-learn-from-masters-runners#

I guess you would have to copy and paste the url address into your browser because I can’t get it to open from this post. In case you don’t want to read the entire article, here are the four key ideas;

Get plenty of rest , Hydrate constantly,  Strength train,  Worry less and enjoy.

Here’s to happy and healthy running in 2017.??