Experiment Day: Stocking feet warm-up on Treadmill then into slow and easy jog for .5 mile to test for any muscle tenderness. None!!!! Running barefoot forced me to run on balls of my feet which put a ton of pressure on my calves...thought they would explode if I went faster. After .5 mile went and put on shoes. Then another 1.6 miles...that was way easier to run on. I forced myself to do a midfoot landing which felt good. Pace was extremely pedestrian to assure that this was easing into the running lifestyle again. All went well. Will see later today and tomorrow if there is any residual tenderness/soreness. Feels good to put an actual # on the mile chart today. Got my heart rate up to low 120's is all on the run. Wanted to run harder but was not going to do it the first day out and screw something up.
Then went and did .5 hour on elliptical. Got HR up to 139 for a bit. Happy to get 1 whole hour of exercise in even though it was really easy stuff. Looks like I may opt out of the Railroad Days 10K and just volunteer...then look for a half in the fall sometime.
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