5 minutes walk - ran until tired - cool down walk resulting in total time of 19:16.
Covered 1.46 miles at an average pace of 13:12. Nice temperature - 54F - but the wind was 15 mph gusting to 20mph from the south. Learning my lesson from yesterday I wore my stocking cap and felt comfortable throughout the run. This is part of my ongoing effort to sneak light mileage in between the regularly scheduled run days. There were no mileage or time goals and I ran "around the block" here in the neighborhood rather than bother with driving to the track. There is a nice gentle elevation splitting the circuit so I got to run a bit uphill on one side of the loop and back down on the other.
Did plenty of stretches before and afterward to try to work out the issues with the calf muscle but it is still plenty tender.
Didn't sleep at all last night. For some reason the body refused to shutdown even when my mind was completely wiped out. Finally drifted off on the couch around 0230 and was not ready for the alarm at 0630. I crawled off of the couch enough to get the family out the door and take care of a few email chores before napping a bit. | 