Anne & I went to Rutland for my parents-in-law's 60th wedding anniversary. I decided to go for a longer run this morning. It was breezy and chilly when I started and turned cold, windy and rainy; it was actually spitting snow & freezing rain at the high point of the run. 600 feet of vertical climb before I turned around. This was about the max my calves can handle at this point in my recovery. I felt some minor pains at about 9 miles so I backed off to a very easy jog. I attribute the pains to the cool temperature, the substantial uphill and downhill, and the distance. This was a good test. I've made a good bit of progress with conditioning my calf muscles since I started back at the beginning of the year. This run would have hobbled me 3 months ago. 11.08 miles. 1:26:35. 7:49/mile. 140 BPM.
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