Day 203, 162 To Go

July 22, 2013

Rejoice everyone, the prince is born!  That's right, a new Prince was born in England. This is a tremendous day in the history of...oh, wait...I actually don't give a shit.  Let me get back to reality.

I am no prince, but if you are reading this blog, at least for a few minutes, I have you attention and I hope I can keep you entertained or at least informed.

Remember previously when I mentioned how it is not a good idea to do two hard workouts in a row, especially at my age?  Yeah, well I should have listened.  Ouchie.  Everything was sore today and once again, my toe is barking at me again.  I think this is one of those injuries that I may have to go check out.  It may not actually get in my way when I run, but anything that makes me yell OWWWWWW!!!! when I accidentally tweak my toe in a certain direction, deserves some professional attention.  My biggest fear is that the doctor will tell me that I broke or tore something and that he wants to put me in a boot or cast or something, and there goes my running.  I will probably not listen unless the prognosis is I may never run again.  Then I will have to do it and try again next year.

So, as soon as I find a doctor, I will go.  Really.  I promise....

Today was a Honey running day.  I think I held her back because I could barely run.  She was running well, but when she had to stop, and I stopped my watch, I once again forgot to restart it!  AHHH!  There is a function on the watch that will stop the timer once you stop moving.  Perhaps I should use it.  I know the older versions of the watch it did not work that well.  Because of the movement of the satellites, even when you were not moving, it would think you were and it would not really stop.  This is almost as annoying as messing up the numbers.

I only had it off for about 2:30 minutes so I extrapolated our distance using the pace of our last mile.  This actually probably short changed our distance by a bit because the last quarter mile was much faster than the previous mile, but I had to do something.

Here are our numbers:

Time: 25:00

Distance: 2.24 miles

Pace: 11:11/m

Max Pace: 8:56/m

Calories: 196
Avg HR: 113

Max HR: 126

As you can see, the top speed is approaching a PR for Honey.  I don't recall ever seeing a top pace below 9 minutes and it is now four running days in a row where she was approaching 11 min pace.  I think she is very close to breaking the 11 minute barrier!  She is consistently running faster these days.  Amazing what consistency can do!  See Honey!

I am off to relax and maybe ice my foot again.  I have to start looking for a doctor...or podiatrist...or not.  I'll start tomorrow.  Sure.  That's what I will do.  Promise...

Run for Life!