April 7th,  Thursday      10 p.m.

What a wonderful, exhilarating run today!

The weather was very pleasant, about 50 degrees, bright blue sky, high clouds and warm sunshine.

Well, after yesterday’s blog I took a 2 hour nap from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. . Then ate a very light  dinner and got into  bed by midnight.  Remarkably,  I slept through the night till about 9 a.m. turned over 3x, and finally I awoke  for good at 10:30 a.m.  By my math that’s 12.5 hours of sleep in the last 24 hours!  I think my body was telling me something yesterday.  So today about 4 p.m.,  after heating up for a long time and doing all the necessary pre run stuff,  I headed out for the friendly  cinders at the Horse Track.   With trepidation I walked a half mile and jogged a half-mile before removing my sweats.   My legs were springy, my Achilles was quiet and my breathing was very comfortable.  My goal became  to do 3 of those CQ miles  if possible.  I felt better with each mile and finished 4 miles  in 41:20.  

On the back straightaway of this half mile track there is about a  200 meter stretch. Today there was a crisp wind blowing down that straight away.  I struggled into that wind for the first two miles,  but then began to feel exhilarated and started to surge  into the wind each lap.   ( PROBABLY  GETTING CLOSE TO THE  PIZ )  On each of the last four laps I crushed the wind for 200 meters.   Along the way Bob Seger’s song came into my head;

“Well I’m older now and still

  Running Against the Wind“

You see, I wasn’t trying to make any kind of a statement or prove any point today . I think I just reveled in the idea of  getting a little harder by beating the wind.    I left those cinders with a wide smile today.

This was one of those days that makes + 70 running total Joy!

Stats-

a.m  HR- 53 BPM

I-Mad-  2.5  After really long sleep.  Better!

Weight –  #153

Sleep –  12.5 hrs  Really!

Workout-  Covered 5 miles,  1 mile warm-up  + 4 miles  in 41:20, with surges  x 4 @ 200 m  &   400 jog