Miles Ran: 1.25
Miles Walked: 1.0
I had a really great workout tonight! I left feeling like I could have done more, and when I got to my car I was wondering why I didn't. But, I chalked it up to learning myself and my tolerance... tonight whenever I felt like I was hitting a wall, I just kept running a little bit further. This workout I did all of the running in two spurts, instead of run/walk off and on throughout. It sounds silly to celebrate running 0.75 miles at once, but it's the first of (hopefully) many small victories to celebrate. I think the mind and body are starting to remember what they were doing 10 years ago--and getting back into the swing of being athletic.
Tomorrow is going to be a real test of how I'm doing. It will be my first attempt at running outside in a really long time. One thing I really like about using the treadmill is all of the information that is right in front of you; if I can see that I am very close to making a milestone, I'm more likely to push myself to achieve it instead of stopping when I feel like it. Out on the open road, there isn't an end in sight so it's easier to say, "oh I can start walking here" instead of pushing through. I am going to map out my route on Gmaps Pedometer to get a rough idea my GPS also has a "walk" setting so that it can calculate times and distances (and I'm assuming different routes, on one-way streets for example) for a walker rather than a driver. So maybe I'll play with calculating a route there too. The latest updates on Google aren't very recent in our area--too many new building projects in the past few years for the satellite imaging to keep up with I guess.
I also have to get out and buy new shoes at some point this weekend. I have major shin splint action going on (strangely, it's worse when I walk than when I run), and while I can ignore it to a certain point it still isn't comfortable. Plus, there are holes in my Sauconys and it's time to retire them. BTW--the reason my shoes have holes in them is that I have a knobby section of bone at the bottom of each Achilles tendon that rubs the inside back of my shoes. I Googled "heel bone" (duh, Google is my lifeline) and found this photo:
Based on this image, I looked up "Haglund's Deformity" (also called "pump bump" because it is sometimes caused by wearing heels--I wonder how the men with this condition feel about that name... or are we ladies the only ones who have foot deformities??) and found out that it is supposedly painful and is more likely to develop when there is a prominent bump on the heel. So I guess if it ever does start hurting I'll know that I have bursitis of the heel. The worst I've ever had is just blisters.
