Was going to write this last night, but I happened to be watching the Mets game, which turned my stomach and put me in a really bad mood. I’m getting over it now…
Did my typical lower manhattan 6.5 mile loop run last night. I thought the weather was great. Cool at 53 degrees, somewhat foggy and misty, and a bit humid. You could feel the chill in the air, which I love, but I suspect we won’t have much of that anymore. Supposed to warm up to the 70s again the next few days, then it will be May, and then it will get hot, and I’ll start to hate running again!
I thought I was having a really great run. I mostly caught green lights so did not need to stop and barely needed to slow down at any intersections along the way. I felt like I really picked up the pace the 2nd half of the run on the East River bike path, and really sprinted my way through the last half mile up Ave A. At the end of my run, my watch said 1:02:17, definitely slower than I expected. I’ve completed this in under 59 minutes a couple of times, and thought I would be in the 1:00 to 1:01 range. I guess my lack of running the last month is having an effect on me. Gotta step it up and be ready for the Brooklyn Half Marathon on May 30.
While the pain I felt the other day in the upper inner thigh went away (must have been from my bike ride on Saturday), I still have the lingering mild groin strain that has been bothering me for a few months now. I’m going to continue to run through it, and ice and stretch, and hopefully it won’t get worse as I prepare for the New York City Triathlon in July.
Change of scattered thunderstorms later today. Was hoping to bike ride tonight – we’ll see what the weather looks like first. If it is rainy, I’ll try to get to the gym to swim, although on Wed, there is only a 30 minute window for open swimming, 9-930.
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