Knees: I felt the right knee twinge a bit in the latter part of the run, but it wasn’t hurting, and I don’t think it impacted my performance. As I write this an hour or so later, the knee is feeling fine.
After Saturday’s mega-birding trek, my upper right leg/hip started to feel sore and while it began feeling better through Sunday, I was still unsure on whether I’d run today. This morning, however, I felt fine, so headed off for a minimalist river run1A minimalist run is one where I minimize the amount of walking, so in this case I start the run as soon as I get to the river trail, which is after about a 1.5 km walk. This compares to having to walk 4 km to run at the lake.. Conditions were good—sunny but not hot and humidity exactly the same at 53%, which meant my mouth wouldn’t get overly dry. I brought the water bottle and used it twice, though could possibly have skipped it.
And even though my average pace was back below 6:00/km, I felt weirdly sluggish and tired for the run. I wasn’t overly exerting myself–my BPM was down to 149 for large portions of the run, so I’m not sure what it was. In any case, I finished and overall it was okay, but not like socks-rolling-up-and-down fantastic or anything.
Regarding the tiny new route extension: When I run the river trail, I normally run past the gate at the end of the trail/service road and down the sidewalk to the intersection of Cariboo Road and Cariboo Place. Today, I daringly ran on past it, as detailed in the shot of the run map below. Why did I do this? Was I feeling extra zany? Trying to escape, somehow? Blazing a new trail? I think I secretly wanted to end the run a bit earlier, so I wouldn’t have as far to walk back. In reality, the distance would still be about the same, but psychologically it would feel like less. The mind is a strange place.
I will ponder what to do on Wednesday.
Stats:
Run 792 Average pace: 5:56/km Training status: Productive Location: Brunette River Trail Start: 11:15 a.m. Distance: 5.03 km Time: 29:49 Weather: Sunny Temp: 21ºC Humidity: 53% Wind: light BPM: 151 Weight: 167.3 Total distance to date: 5840 km Devices: Garmin Forerunner 255 Music, iPhone 12, AirPods (3rd generation) Shoes: Saucony Peregrine 12 (510 km)
