Track last night. Shin reacted a little, but enough to really annoy me. This injury just doesn’t seem to want to heal. And I felt so terribly out of shape on the 3 intervals of 1000 I did/ Lungs were tight and I felt heavy and it was really a struggle. It’s depressing how quickly you lose fitness once you stop training properly. I need to just stop doing any fast runs and build up to a point where I can go out and run on the trails for 90minutes without being concerned about re-injuring myself. Getting a bicycle this Friday… plan on commuting to work two to three times a week at first and then, if I can sort it all out with running training as well, try and commute to work everyday and use my car less… Need to burn off all of the energy I wake up with every morning. Also need to find a way to keep me sane when I’m not able to run as much as I’d like to.
Looking forward to biking all memorial day weekend to get out and see the world and also test the routes to work from home. On days when I’m only doing 6 or 8 in the morning I’ll bike to work, and if my run is 12 or 15 miles then I’ll probably drive in. Don’t know how it’ll work out with carrying lunch and how hot it’ll be in the summer and carrying clothes or storing clothes at work and storing lunch at work etc. etc. but that’s all part of the fun of it I suppose… working all of those things out. I can get to work pretty much all on bike paths – down rock creek – over that route 66 bridge – along W&OD railroad and then up to Tyson’s. This works out at about 16 miles I think. The route to work is less than 12 if I go on the roads and go directly west from my house across town and take the chain bridge and then just cycle along chain bridge road. It’ll be fun trying out both routes this weekend.
