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| Tether and lace |
Yesterday's workout (elliptical): 30 minutes
Thursday's run (treadmill): 3.3 miles
Last Sunday's run (street): 3.2 miles
This week has been busy. For a change, it wasn't due to work. I took Wednesday and Thursday off for some family stuff, but that didn't give me much workout time. I did manage to squeeze in a treadmill run, but accidentally pulled out the safety tether halfway through. That brought the machine to an abrupt halt. I was upset for a moment because it caused my time and distance to disappear from the display. Fortunately, I'd set my Garmin for an indoor run that captured all that information.
The worst part of interrupting a good run is the drop in heart rate that follows. I've had occasions when a perfectly good workout became a struggle after an unscheduled stop. A few years ago I was on a brisk lunchtime run in Central Park with a friend who asked me to stop so he could shed a top layer. We were at the halfway point on Cat Hill when we stopped. I struggled from that moment on, and ended up cutting our five miler to three.
This morning I was anxious to get outside after yesterday's elliptical session and Thursday's treadmill run. The weather was pleasant, 52° and overcast, and the pavement felt good under my NB Zantes. I hadn't run in them for over a month due to their low platform and my plantar issue. I figured that I'd made enough progress to try them again. They really are great shoes and I had no post run heel problems.
Like the treadmill tether problem I had on Thursday, I found myself needing to stop a couple of times on my run. I hadn't double knotted my laces and they were whipping annoyingly around my ankles. It was no big deal, but I did feel light headed after bending down to retie the Zantes. My recovery from those stops went better than that time in Central Park but it did throw off my momentum.
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| Today's run |
Tomorrow will be colder than today and I'll decide in the morning whether to brave the outdoors or retreat to the treadmill. Either way, I'm hoping to get through my run without any tether or tying issues.
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Thank you for the shout out! It was purdy up there and not as hilly as I feared. No clocks at the mile markers was a bummer, but I'd consider doing it again.
ReplyDeleteSo the takeaway from this post is: Don't stop.
Are we running together before Boston?
The course must have been beautiful, I saw that it went through Rockefeller State Park. Congrats again for podiuming since I didn't think you were doing this race with the intention of placing.
DeleteStopping on a run is more of a problem for me when I'm pushing my HR. I once had both shoes untie at different times during a 5K and stopping cost me 90 seconds and threw off my pace for the remainder of the race.
We should have a pre-Boston run. It will probably need to happen next weekend or the one after that.
What kind of a person runs without double knots???
DeleteIt was a rare lapse in judgment that I can only blame on my enthusiasm for getting out the door. Or maybe it was laziness. One or the other.
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