Ode to Boston

Type
Distance
5.00km
Minutes
31.00 minutes

With the Boston Marathon being cancelled as of today — not that I was running it — it’s looking increasingly less likely that Chicago is going to go ahead either. I expect a note in my email in the coming weeks or days to that effect.

On the other side of that disappointment, the certainty of my work from home situation for another three-plus months has motivated me to dig a little deeper for a training plan that will get me through to the end of summer in shape for some virtual half marathons. That means, say, getting off my ass an running at 830 on a beautiful May evening rather than parking on the couch yet again to watch more stupid Netflix.

I’ve been running a regular five klick route because (a) I know it’s 5K exactly, and (b) running the same route is a good level setting exercise allowing Strava to run some comparative analysis of my day-by-day training. For example, I ran the same route tonight as I did two days ago on Tuesday, and tonight I was about 19 seconds slower. It could be the time of day. It could be that I had a longer, tougher day at work. It could be I’m a little dehydrated. Either way, it wasn’t a terrible time and nineteen seconds is a rounding error.

A few more of those and a few less television shows and maybe I’ll feel a little worse about Chicago when that running shoe finally drops.

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