Friday – 510pm

Distance: 10.9469 km
Time: 52 min

Big plans today, but they failed to come to fruition as I got home too late and the temperature was dropping pretty rapidly. I decided to postpone my next big mileage run to Monday and run a couple 10k’s first to get back in the swing of things after taking a few days off running.

The run itself was nice. The sidewalks are mostly clear, and I had layered up enough so that the cold wasn’t too noticeable. It was the first run that I’ve used my antique iPod Shuffle strapped to my arm. It’s much smaller than my BlackBerry and until I can find a way to keep my Curve from bouncing around I’m just going to go with the Shuffle.

I was pretty stiff to start, but then at km #4.5 I started feeling a lot better. I haven’t been thinking too much about warm-up when I’ve been running so I think (especially on the long runs) I’m going to take it easy for the first few km until I’m warm.

Now that I think of it, I had a great game at Wednesday’s Ultimate, and I spent a long time warming up then, too. I’ve stopped following the arguments about whether or not it’s good to stretch before exercise but at the least it gave me a chance to get focused on my upcoming game. I’ll spend some time getting ready for my next run and see what effect that has.