Start time: 7/12/03, 7:00am
Location: W&OD Trail
Activity: Running
Distance: 7 miles
Run:Walk ratio: 3:2

Another recovery run, another short week to report—aside from big thanks to Derek Barnes for helping support my fundraising this year!

After my uncomfortable 14-miler last week I took it pretty easy this week. I was watching my parents’s dog all of this week, so he was at least going for a very short walk every day, but otherwise I have to admit it was spent with me sitting on my butt a lot. The run site on Saturday was pretty deserted; I think some people are taking these short “recovery” runs for granted. We only had five people in our group, but Julie and I were the only ones in good shape. John was recovering from his fall two weeks ago, Lindsay just had some soreness issues that were being worked out, and visiting from another group was Lisa who is having what’s called IT Band Syndrome. I think our group should’ve been renamed “walking wounded” this week!

We ended up going a little slower in deference to the rest of the group, but John and Lindsay decided that discretion is the better part of valor (which it is) and after the first three miles decided they would just walk another two miles and call it a day. Julie and Lisa and I pushed on, and while a coach recommended that Lisa call it quits early, she pushed her way through with us.

Next Saturday I’ll be out of town (in the first three weeks of July I will actually have been at home for all of five days!); I’m tenatively going to try and make up the missed 16-miler that following Tuesday, but a lot will depend on how I’m feeling that morning. (If I do try and make it up, I’ll be doing half in the morning and half in the evening, which my coach last year swore works just fine.) If not, I’ll play it by ear. I’m good at that.