Mitts Longest Run

So, yesterday, with lower humidity for the first time in a few weeks I took Mitts with me on a recovery ish run. She has done 6 or so recovery runs with me all either 4 or 5 miles long and on each of these runs about halfway through she is usually in step with me and with a mile left she is about done. However, yesterday we did 6.5 miles and she was still charging up hills and pulling a little.

Mitts

The pulling is of course not ideal; but, I'm happy that the run was easier for her. Although, she did enjoy laying down in the brook when the run was over.

On another note, my injured Quad is tight but I don't think I stressed it on the run. Being a recovery run I tried to keep a slowish even pace. I think it ended up being a little quicker than what the range says it should be, but pacing is still a huge weakness. It seems I run a fair number of runs a little faster than I need to in order to hit the marathon pace I want. This is tempered by the reality that with the string of injuries I have not been able to do much tempo running (2 miles total!). I do play soccer 1 or 2 times per week though, so hopefully that is helping on that end. The soccer is certainly hurting my long runs though as I have had to not do a few because of game nights the night before a long run.

Going to try for 12 miles tonight.

Long time...

I've been pretty slack at blogging my running escapades; but, as I'm likely mostly writing to myself that is just fine. Fortunately, my running is more frequent than my posting, and as we have hit a run of weather that has been amazing for about 5 weeks, the running has been very enjoyable.

For the past 3 weeks I've been doing all of my running outside on the trails of Shubie. All of the runs have been great, save for a minor soreness or tightness. These are likely more from new sneakers and soccer games than from running. Luckily, the farther the better as the uncomfortableness seems to fade about half way through.

We've had a good stretch of soccer results of late, although, some of the games have been less than attractive soccer for the full 90 minutes; but at least we are pulling them out.

I'm going to run for the first time on pavement since the Blue Nose 10k in May, which was the beginning of a lot of back troubles. So, hopefully the Cole Harbour Harvest Run 6 miler is kinder to me.