Objective: moderate / general aerobic 32F, mostly cloudy, wind 11mph, snow remained on plants but pavement dry & clear My plans for a Friday-off, Saturday-long run fell apart yesterday when DH and I sat down to have one of our much needed Planner Pow-wows. Very illuminating. (Gr.) We don't keep a family calendar. I guess we need to have these little chats more often. So I'm on mom duty Saturday morning and that means no run. Ah well. I wanted to sleep in Sunday after staying out late Saturday but I guess I'll manage. Speaking of illuminating.... I feel both stupid and happy about the cadence question I posed yesterday. Stupid, because I hadn't really counted steps with my watch for a while, just assuming that my intuitive "feel" for the cadence was still accurate -- it was not. And therefore happy, because I am at 180 even on my easy pace. I have been working on it for a while, and I don't know when I crossed over to success, but this morning's count -- this time using the watch instead of my faulty mental clock -- was right on the dot. It was funny, really: "twenty seconds yielded 60 steps, times 3... oh no that can't be right. Try again...." I finally did the waltz thing, watching the seconds and thinking 1-2-3, 1-2-3. Yep, 180. I guess I can move on now and start focusing more on push-off and other speed enhancers. So that's February, since I won't run again until Sunday. I'm not as far along as I had hoped probably due to a week off from illness and this past week of still feeling kind of run down. I hope you all had a good month. Three weeks until the official beginning of spring! I'm planning my victory party. :D
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