April 16th, Monday

25 minutes swimming and 15 minutes in whirlpool.  1st time in pool since my recent sinus issues.  Recovered quite well…

APRIL 17,  Tuesday

“What ever happened to Tuesday and so slow?”

Hoping for the relentless winter weather to back off as the day progressed, I waited until late afternoon to bundle up in five layers and head out to the cinder track. Feeling more like a shuffling Eskimo then a distance Runner, I began running with remarkably fresh legs. I ran at a moderate, comfortable pace as I worked on composing my speech for the Push Your Pace camp this summer. I guess I can say that I am nervous about it because I’m preparing 3 months in advance. But it turned out that I quickly covered 3 miles on the cinders at a gradually increasing pace. It felt good and I warmed up considerably. So I decided to strip down a little and try for some quicker efforts despite my fears of aggravating my  nagging abdominal /groin issues.  I proceeded to run two times 800m at 4:15 with 2 minutes recovery.  I’m convinced that  I could have run faster because I was not aerobically challenged at any point. But I did hold back from running any faster out of an abundance of caution. I rebundled and finished with a cool down mile run. In all  I covered 5 miles which far exceeded my expectations.

Stats are stable.