Kerry's Running Blog

Beautiful fall morning. Temperatures in the high 40's, low 50's. Plenty of sunshine. The quads and left calf have been sore the last couple of days, along with the PF in my right foot, but I was happily surprised that today's run went fairly well. Everything was still a bit sore starting out, but it all felt better than yesterday and didn't get any worse during the run. I was a bit surprised, however, by the effort it required to run at a fairly slow pace. I was breathing like marathon pace, but probably only running 9:30 to 10:00 pace. It's just so nice to get out again.

Had a delightful late morning run with Laureen and Amelia (my youngest daughter -- we couldn't talk Brittany into going with us). The weather was just perfect. We ran down to the Highland Glen pond and back, stopping to explore along the way. We stopped to watch little trout jumping out of the water after the occasional insect and also jogged over to watch some boys practicing soccer. Amelia's starting to get the sense that she can run at a slower pace and it's still fun and good for you (up til now she seems to have had only one gear). We just had fun and Laureen found lots of lucky coins scattered around the school. My legs are starting to feel halfway normal.

I succeeded in getting both daughter out this morning to go with me. They weren't up for a three mile run, but they were both up for a bike ride along side me. As I didn't want to hold them up too much, I pushed it a little harder than I had orignally planned, but the legs felt pretty good. The PF in my right foot bothered me starting out, but I was happy to find that it had pretty much faded after the first mile. Riding up the slight grade on the path behind the high school was a bit harder for the girls and I had to stop a couple of times to wait for them. It was fun to be out with them and challenge them to a bit of a race. As long as we were going uphill I had the advantage, but as soon as we started down the path along the creek, they started to pull ahead. I ran harder to keep up and was surprised at how good I felt. Average pace for the run was 8:06.

Intended to sleep in this morning, but Laureen and I were both awake early, so we just decided to get up and go for a run. It was overcast when we left the house, but not raining. We ran the Highland Glen loop backwards and had fun kicking up the leaves along the creek path. By the time we were looping around the pond the wind had kicked up a bit and a light steady rain was falling. We stopped for a minute to watch a big balloon slowly descending into a field. It was apparently on a cord of some kind and was being reeled in by some guy in a pickup. We thought we'd jog over that way and see what he was doing, but he drove off before we even got close. The balloon was wider than the bed, so he had to drive kind of slow. We don't know what he was doing, but it was a nice distraction from the rain and wind. After he passed the high school and started south, the wind and rain started to let up and we made it home without getting completely drenched.