Fly me to the moon...

Can I just say that I don't like Daylight Savings Time. An arbitrary change of clocks every 6 months does nothing to change the amount of daylight. It just makes it dark when I want to run. Anyway, today was an easy 4 along the Provo River trail. I had a side ache nearly the entire run, but other than that if felt fine. I didn't get enough sleep last night or drink enough water today so that probably didn't help.  My pace was around 7:30 per mile.

Easy 3 at 7:30 pace along the trail.

It was even darker on the trail today.  I took a small flashlight this time though.  I felt really good today.  The legs are feeling better now, and I feel strong during the run and at the end.  It was another easy 4.5 along the trail at around 7:20 pace.

Another 4 miles at 7:20 pace along the trail today.  That makes 4 consecutive days!  It has been a long time since I did that.  I'm trying to be more consistent and build a good base.  I'm debating over whether to run a 5k race this Saturday.  It would just be a fast training run to see where my fitness is at.

I ran for the 5th consecutive day today, but it was short.  Yesterday as I started my run I had a pain in the front of my left ankle.  As I continued it loosened up and felt okay, but all during the day today it was sore if I walked on it much.  I decided to run a little on it tonight to see how it felt, and it was not good.  It was painful to start out, but it loosened up a little after the 2 miles.  I noticed I wasn't running smoothly and was sort of stomping my left foot a bit rather than a nice heel to toe strike like normal.  It did get better after about a mile and half, but the pain was still there.  I tried running in the grass and that felt better.  I've never not been able to run because of an injury and come to think of it I've never really had any running related injuries.  I'll see how it feels tomorrow and go from there.