Training Log Archive: RLShadow

First Whiting Rd run in a long time. Decided to see if hills bothered my knee issue or not. (Too soon to tell.) Brought Homer along -- he did fine.

I was dressed pretty inappropriately -- way overdressed for the temperature, sunshine, and lack of wind, and totally wrong shoes.

Trainsnail can and will sneer at me for this, but I decided to wear some kind of worn out road shoes instead of trail shoes. I've been wearing orthotics as much as possible recently, and I know they feel pretty good to my feet with both pair of Saucony road shoes. Whereas they don't feel quite so good with my normal trail shoes. Much of the trail was frozen ground, and that wasn't a big problem, but it had gotten warm enough that a significant portion has a thin layer of very slick mud, and I felt like I was on ice on those sections. I didn't fall at all, but I came close, and my pace was reduced to a walk in many places where I knew anything faster would be a disaster. Live and learn, I guess ...

Quite a few cars in the parking lot, but until the last 2 minutes or so of the run, no sitings of any kind (no people, dogs, squirrels, deer, cats, etc.). Then encountered three people, one dog, and one bike.

C • sneer? 4

Pickleball, Monday evening group at Webster Rec Center. Cheryl came tonight, as it was one of her rare Monday nights not spent working at the library. We had 8 people for a while, then one guy had to leave, which meant we had one court of 4 going, and 3 people sitting out, not ideal, but we take what we can get. We had Cheryl, me, Glen, Mark, Gary (who left early), Kay, Joyce, and Richard.