After eight days off, I was a bit tentative about running, given the litany of problems I have suffered lately, but the weather was pleasant — hazy sunshine, 18ºC and a light breeze, so I decided to give it a go with another modest 5K run. After a warm-up and some stretching I began and ended up shaving one second off my best time for the month. My right calf felt perfectly fine and any creakiness in my left leg worked itself out fairly quickly. Although my first km was not especially fast, I like that I was able to maintain my pace over the 2nd km and picked the pace up slightly in the final stretch.
I am introducing the cap-tug number (CTN) with this update. When I am running and start to perspire my cap begins to ride up slightly on my head. This is not an issue unless it is breezy, which it has been all freaking spring (and now summer). When it gets windy, the cap threatens to lift and take flight, forcing me to tug it back down. Due to the perspiration, this is only a temporary measure, requiring further tugs to insure the cap stays on. Today I had to tug the cap four times to keep it in place, thus the CTN for today is rated 4. A guy actually had a kite out at the park but it wasn’t quite windy enough and he gave up after a short time. Still, that gives you an idea of what it was like (current winds are being reported as 11 km/h).
For a change I opted to do my post-run stretching in the park instead of waiting to do it at home. I almost overdid it while waiting for a fellow jogger to run by. I didn’t have to wait but he was…uh…not wearing a shirt.
I like summer. That is all.
Chart (bolded numbers are overall average time/km):
| Distance | June 26th | June 15th | June 11th | June 7th | June 4th | June 1st |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 km | 5:10 | 5:07 | 5:08 | 5:08 | 5:07 | 5:03 |
| 2 km | 5:11 | 5:13 | 5:12 | 5:15 | 5:20 | 5:21 |
| 3 km | 5:17 | 5:17 | 5:16 | 5:21 | 5:27 | 5:33 |
| 4 km | 5:21 | 5:19 | 5:20 | 5:24 | 5:31 | 5:40 |
| 5 km | 5:23 | n/a | 5:24 | 5:28 | 5:34 | 5:45 |
