This morning I went out for one of my rare sub-6:00-am runs. In addition, for the first time since purchasing a pair of Five Fingers over a year ago, I ran outside with them. In short, the treadmill is a lot softer than the road and you really feel the gravel poke at the bottom of your feet. Wow, I really felt it every time my heel hit the road and was basically running on my toes (i.e., like tiptoeing over hot coals) for the first half of a mile. However, near the end of my 1.6-mile experiment to Big Cottonwood Park and back, my feet were feeling more comfortable with the terrain even though I was averaging a cautious 10:00 minute-per-mile pace.
After work I mixed in two run; that is, one on the treadmill and another over to Mill Creek Elementary and back by way 1500 South and Big Cottonwood Park. The combined distance of these runs was 5.2 miles (mostly at an easy pace with one mile at marathon pace).
In regards to my non-running workout, I completed 200 sit-ups, 25 push-ups, 60 (50, 40, 30 lbs) curls, and 20 (50 lbs) reverse curls. | 