Part way into my "Big Loop" route, I realized I wasn't working. Not to say I wasn't moving, but the effort was minimal at best and this was new. Granted, I was going slow--10:30 - 11:30 miles, but the roads were covered in ice and traction was sketchy at best.
This route, my first time around, was a HUGE achievement--I bragged about it for weeks and although I knew I could run it, I avoided it because of the investment of effort needed. But today was different. Better. Easier. I even removed a glove and made phone calls while jogging down an ice-covered sidewalk at 6mph. I'm not sure it was obvious to the people on the other end of the line to know what I was doing during the conversation...
The run was cut shorter then I would have liked--one of the phone calls was from Simon who needed to be picked up from DDF practice. I ran home, jumped into the truck, picked up Simon, took him home, got a drink of water then went right back out for another 2.5 miles. I felt like I could have done ten. That is until I ran out of fuel. 2 miles in, I could tell I needed nutrition and was glad I didn't head out on the five mile loop like I had planned.
I "borrowed" the chest strap from Annie's Garmin 210 for this run. I wanted to see if it would read more accurately then mine. It did. No weird spikes early in the run, everything looked good. Time to see about replacing mine.
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