Running is therapy

As I alluded earlier I did indeed go running today. I think my overall lack of a life makes me a little restless at times, and so I will look at my day and think, “This day will be incomplete without a run in it” and so off I go.

I think today I may have been satisfied with a hike, but I didn’t think I’d have time. As it turned out, I actually would have. Oh well, hiking is for slow runners. (totally kidding :)

I was hanging out with a bunch of hikers last night, and a couple of them were sectional through-hikers on the AT. To understand what that is, it helps to know that a through-hiker is one that has hiked the entire AT. A sectional through-hiker is someone that has hiked every inch of the trail, but in chunks, rather than all at once. I have long wanted to start doing that, and I actually think I might start making plans to do it, but at any rate the concept is interesting.

Since I was thinking about sectional through-hiking last night, I decided that I wanted to do the same thing with Rails-To-Trails around here, but not hike them, run them. To that end, I looked over the map and decided since I had already run past Fish Hatchery Road a number of times, I would start there and do an out and back run to claim another section of trail done.

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I ran out 3.5 miles to Duncan Road, then turned and ran 1.5 miles back and walked the last 2 for a little extra calorie burn. Next week I plan to park and Duncan and run the roughly 4 miles to Shippensburg, back and a little more to get my 9 miler in, and complete the trail. After I finish this one, I plan to attempt to do Conewago and York as time allows.

It was a nice SLOW run, just as I intended. I also managed a 2 mile Walk

1 mile splits: 10:12, 10:10, 10:15, 10:33, 10:13 (Pretty even, I can live with that)

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Some stats:
Distance: 5.01 Miles
Time: 51:24 (pace: 10:16)
Average Heart Rate: 140 bpm
Calories Burned: 737 calories