Having not recovered from last
Saturday’s 8 ½ mile run, but itching for a different type of workout other than
what I’ve been doing indoors in the past three days, it was a gamble deciding
to put on my running clothes and venturing to the sunny outdoors of my
neighborhood. I really wanted to run on Tuesday but had to put it off for
Wednesday because my ankle tendons were still tender. I figured I’d just stop
and go back home if I started to hurt too much so I wanted to keep it in the
vicinity. I wasn’t even sure which direction I was going when I got out the
door but started heading North, then West, then it became aimless after that
point. All that mattered was running slowly for four minutes and taking a one
minute ankle-recovering walk break afterwards. Maybe I’ll turn down this
street, wait, maybe a couple more streets down past this construction zone.
Make a left, a U-turn, a right on a street where a friend used to live, then
ten minutes South on the L.A. River bike path. At this point thirty minutes
into the run, my GPS watch indicated that the lap memory was full so I had to
stop and walk until I figured out how to reset it to zero. Resuming the run, I
headed back North, down another street, into the neighborhood park, added a few
minutes by running up and down a couple of short hills, then headed back home
to finish fifty minutes of meandering and aimless running. Finally! A relief
from indoor cycling, rowing, and from the elliptical machine. Let’s hope the
ankles will have healed enough to run on Saturday. Weight training having been
done yesterday, now to start my abs workout…
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