Horray for the inklings of Fall! I was able to run at 9am without feeling like I'd get heat exaustion. It was under 80! Did the pretty little valley loop (5 mile easy run) that I've only ran a couple times so it still feels nice & new. Took me a good 25 min. to get into the run, but the last 2 miles were smooth sailing. The bottom of my right foot was crampy and my left ankle was sore. I think the foot cramp may be from switching from stability shoes w/ posts to cushion shoes with no posts. I think I'm going to get an arch support insert and see if that helps. The sore ankle is probably from all the mileage and I do tend to roll that foot a bit so I think that's why it gets sore. ANYWAY- I stopped 2x to try to stretch & walk out the minor cramp, which did help a bit. Then I ran into my VT companion and seeing there's 4 more days left in the month I thought we'd better get together, so I stopped to quickly chat w/ her. So I think I can take about 3 min. off my time of 52 min. (had the stopwatch running from when I left home to when I returned again) Hoping my pace was just under 10 min. miles....more like 9:48 or something... | 