Home run -- Wed. July 9

One of the muggiest, most airless days of the summer so far, though in my cooled office it was all quite bearable. I needed to run, and at day's end felt more or less ready to do a long one, so left everything in the office and ran home. Rail trail and then along to Orchard, federal and 9. I'd forgotten to put bug-spray on, so it was a bit dire near the end of the trail, but then it wasn't so bad, and I could even take off my short once I reached Federal. F called me as I was climbing up behind Tilton's; I missed the call but called back to say I was nearly home, even while running. Must have sounded weird; it was getting twilightish, so the light from the phone was unnaturally bright. Handy as I didn't have a flashlight. . . During the run I noticed that my calves were pretty tight (especially the right), probably because I've been doing more biking than running of late. But a good workout:

Time: 1:23:29
Distance: 11.17 miles
Speed: 8.0

Comment: I kept the pace very mild at first, though at one hour I'd covered 8.3 miles--technically stamina not endurance pace for me. But I slowed down with the hills after that. Still, I was very sore afterwards, as if I'd not run in a week or more. I guess I should keep it to max. two days off running, even if the distance is short. I can still get two more runs in this week, I think.