New complication in the training routine. Boss wants me to work two Saturdays per month. He is convinced, probably correctly, that our nurse practitioner has no intention of returning from her maternity leave, now at three months and counting, and he does not want to have his weekday clinics loaded with followup visits. So we see followups on Saturday morning so he has more times to do the procedures that really pay the bills. He says he will pay me extra for the Saturdays, in addition to the raise I just got, but don't know what that will mean. And Saturday is, of course, my long run day. I suppose I can do my LR after the clinic, especially in the winter, or start my clinic after the LR (less likely, especially as the LR starts to creep back into the high teens, which it will), or do my LR on Sunday (I like that option least of all, but it may become necessary). Saturday clinic starts 1/3/09. Stay tuned. Anyway, back to tonight's run. Easy 6 on the TM (it's still raining and barely above freezing, not that I was likely to run outside). Wore the HRM for the first time in a long time. Average HR was 139, creeping up to 151. Last HRR figures I had, 139 was about 70% of my HRR. But then I really have no idea what my resting heart rate is now; haven't tried to check it in months, because rolling over to, say, grab a watch or turn the light on puts the heart in high gear. Is it in the high 50s like it was a few months back? Dunno, but kinda doubt it. Going to Camden tomorrow for Christmas. I'm supposed to do an 8 mile GA with strides tomorrow, but this may get in the way. Nana has a treadmill; I may do an easy 5 on the TM tomorrow night and do my strides when I get back Thursday night. Or do them Friday morning; that would work too. | 