Saturday May 20 - back in the saddle again

With the enthusiasm of 1970s Aerosmith, I set off after choiring at the 4pm for a "wake up" run. It'd been almost a month since the last real run, and only one other jog since. So a mid-distance, mid-pace, exploratory, intention-setting run was my goal. A mix of road and trail, open-ended. I took a direct road route (Stop and Shop, Rt 9) to back of Tilton's and then up onto the old rail bed. The first bit's hard to find, and a bit overgrown, but I followed it with stops and starts till it joins M and M, then followed that out to Holland Glen. Felt fine, took a break. Called F and she drove over--we both strolled by the brook a while (lots of rain recently, so it looked mighty fine). Then I ran back the same way, stopping just short of home and cooling off. I had no GPS with me, but I'd timed it, and I estimate the distance here using the old string method:

Time: 55 mins
Speed: 7.4 mph
Distance: 6.8 miles

Comment: it felt like a much longer run, but partly that was the long interval between the two halves. Felt _very_ tired the next day, and sore in forgotten places. やっぱり、a month is too long to keep any useful condition: two weeks is about the limit. But never mind: I'm back into regular multiple runs a week mode, inshallah, at least through September.