March 27th, Easter Sunday ,warm and cloudy, humidity 97%

Weight after running today 150.2#  lowest weight to date

I- Mad this morning =4

Base heart rate 54 BPM holding steady

Happy Easter running lovers.

Today’s workout was a total of 7 miles. 2 miles  warm-up plus 5 miles in 57.32

After a good night’s sleep of about 9 hours and a relaxing morning I set out to run with very few expectations. The goal was  to just run slowly and recover with emphasis on proper foot placement, short strides and steady belly breathing.  I preheated, put on my compression sleeves and my new argyle socks and set out.  Walked for 4 minutes and started jogging very slowly with sweats on for what turned out to be about 2 miles,  very comfortable. Strip down and start on a run. Manage 5 miles with very little distress of any kind. Created a full blog in my head about my disappointing college running career. Very therapeutic.  But the run was very nice. My Achilles had no distress as opposed to the 4 ranking on my I-Mad Index this morning getting out of bed.  This is a good sign I think.   Afterwards iced my legs in the pool for a while and actually went for a nice swim, that was very refreshing.  Seven miles is the longest workout I have done to date.  I am surprised to have done that today.   I think blogging totally distracts me and makes the miles go faster. So after swimming, had chocolate  milk,  ate some pizza and enjoyed my green tea/tart cherry  cocktail.   Also iced my achilles and calves just as a precaution.

Workouts seem to  be getting stronger and,  fortunateIy,  I am feeling very well.  I’m wondering if this will transfer to improved 5K performances.  It would be nice.  Don’t have one scheduled but might start looking for one in the near future.

Happy running  my friends.