DECEMBER 26TH & 27TH ,  Monday & Tuesday

This is likely to be a bit of a rambling post. I have a few things I want talk to myself about. So this is a good place for me to get it straightened out in my brain.?

First, it has occurred to me that I’m very disappointed in the effort that I demonstrated trying to become involved in the Jackson Liberty boys indoor track program this year. There is a very nice group of young men who have a lot of potential on the team. They have always been very kind and supportive of me. I should have spent more time helping Coach Brown and staying close to these young men. That takes me to my second point. I am amazed at how quickly the time slips away and that is part of my excuse for not having a more close involvement with the Liberty team.  I just let it get away.?

Writing this blog for the last 10 months has constantly reminded me of how quickly time goes by. All too often I find that I’ve missed a day of posting, and so I’m happy that this endeavor of mine keeps me focused on the present. I plan to make every effort to post daily from here on out. I especially want to share and have a record for myself of my training for the June, National Senior Games.

Today is an example of time slipping away as I have  not posted since Sunday .  So here goes for today . Yesterday I took the day off to allow my body to rest after my longest run in a while, 4+ miles. I was pretty proud of myself on Sunday. Today Arlene and I drove to the beach in Avon  because of the beautiful spring like, 63 degree weather. We walked the boardwalk and then I decided to jog for a few moments. As I was jogging, a pretty serious pain developed on the bottom of my right foot. It felt like a cramp and I couldn’t shake it during the whole time. I guess I ran a little over a mile on the boardwalk most of it quite distressed by this constant pain. When I finished I took off my support socks and my shoes, then Arlene  actually did a very deep massage of the instep of my foot which hurt quite a bit. We drove home and stopped at the ShopRite for some groceries. Afterward I decided to run again to test if this was going to be a continual problem with my foot. I ran about a mile and a quarter with no pain at all in the right foot. Now the variables; I got the massage from Arl, and I wasn’t wearing my tight support socks and I laced my shoes very, very loosely. So I didn’t get very much of a workout in today. I’m going to have to see what happens tomorrow when I try to run under normal conditions. Hopefully it will be a nice day to run as today was.?

So I am rationalizing training this week by saying that I never expected to be training at all this week after my operation. Everything I had heard about post-operative behaviour was that I would have to cease running for two full weeks. I’ve had at least three decent distance runs in the past week, and so I take that to be I am ahead of the game already. January 1st was going to be my goal to start training. I decided today that my long run for this training sequence is going to be 6 miles once per week. In  thinking about what 5K Runners are doing, it occurred to me they run 12 to 15 Mile distances once a week. My target race is 1500m.  So if I make my long run 5 times my goal race distance, that should be long enough once per week. My aim is to continue running 10 – 12 minute pace until I can comfortably run 6 miles, hopefully close to 60 minutes. At that point I can begin some tempo and interval work as we move to St. Augustine.⛱

I’m going to stop now and recheck this narrative because I have been speaking this entire post without a single check.   Checked and corrected……

STATS – Remain stable…