Exploratory Ten -- Sat. October 18

After another week without a run, but from busy-ness this time, rather than the cold (which I'm over now, prety much), I had Sat. a.m. clear to go. Just too late to take R to his (home-field) soccer game, so ran to that pitch (Jabish) to see F and watch the game start. That was two miles, warm-up. Then off on a road-trail loop, NoWashtn to the Jabish canal, and follow that downstream for a change to 21, then back up to Old Sprngfld and along all the way back to the soccer game again. That was 6 miler at tempo. Then two easier miles home again (along the trail). Cold but sunny and dry day (chill breezy), good for running; here's the combined set:

Time: 1:18:01
Distance: 10.89
Speed: 8.38

Comment: Felt pretty sore afterwards, but at least doing the run in three bits it felt quite possible. Pushed a bit on the 6 mile section, and I'm plenty happy with the overall pace. Maybe I didn't lose too much these last few weeks of no training.