Bouyed

Bouyed by how my Achilles felt after the Anne-Marie House 5K (one of my longer runs so far--w/warm-up and cool-down--and moving a little quicker than I had), I decided to hop into my brother's workout on Wednesday.  He was doing a broken up tempo run on the track and I jumped in for every other quarter.  I ran the quarters in 88-89--again, to see how it felt and my Achilles would react.  I'll sure be happy when I can stop being concerned about this tempermental 3 inch section of my leg!  I felt good and it was fun to be doing something different than what the past few weeks consisted of. 

Last fall, my brother, our friend Todd, and I did workouts together every Wednesday.  It was a good workout group and I'm hoping to make my way back into the workout wednesday routine.  But, I'm going to be realistic where I'm at, so I'll swallow (and no doubt choke) on my pride and just try and hit paces and interval lengths that are representative of where I'm at, not where I want to be.  As I was doing the 4's, I thought about how I want to be able to run this pace for a much, much longer distance, but if I can only do it for 400m at a time right now, that's okay, too.


My run last night started in the dusk and finished in the dark so I got to sport my headlamp. I'm used to wearing it in the winter, so it was a treat to be in a tank top while sporting it!