Running is therapy

Woke up this morning, I was all jazzed up to take the Garmin out for a spin (I haven’t gotten to yet). Since the hamstring was still sore this morning, I decided I would ice it for a while and go for a bike ride to loosen it up.

Took the bike out for a 30 minute ride. That was fun, I had the Garmin on and was checking stats and stuff with it. I wasn’t particularly working out very hard on the bike, I was mostly watching for cars so I didn’t get wiped out. I found that in town here at least, it was difficult to maintain an aerobic heart rate since there is a lot of stopping and starting, uphill, downhill etc. Oh well, it was nice and cool this morning and it felt good to get out and stretch the legs. According to 305 I burned 299 calories just messing around for 30 odd minutes.

When I got back the hamstring was feeling great, so I hopped in the car and headed over to the barracks for a run. I figured I would go at a slow pace, make sure the leg was going to cooperate, and decide on the run what to do about upping the mileage.

The legs felt awesome, not tired, not burning, nothing. It was a nice slow pace, and they must have been awake from the bike ride. So I decided about 1/4 mile in, I was going for 4.

It really wasn’t bad at all, in fact it was one of my better runs. I did 11:49/mi avg pace (which felt easy). Burned 649 calories and maintained an avg heart rate of 154/bpm. The heart rate thing is incredible to me, because I really didn’t feel like I was over-exerting myself at all, if anything I felt like I was running just right.

I need to find a solution to my head sweating. My god that is annoying. I need to carry a small towel or something. I think I may also start running with out my glasses on, taking them off to wipe my face every so often is also annoying.

Anyway, GREAT run today.