I’ve been contemplaiting about this for a while…..a training cyle based on 10 days rather than 7…

For those of us of an advanced age, recovery is important, rest as well…and dealing with a high impact activity called running, instead of every day, every other day…..

That’s a challenge, I look after three Run Club runs a week…and with a 10 day schedule, the run days won’t always match up with the Club days……

In an ideal world, this would work…..easily…..maybe, in a 7 day a week world, maybe not…….I’m putting pen to paper, and will have to see……it may just end up with fewer run days, more off days every week….and not the off days are rest days, the days I don’t/won’t run will be days I can use for things other than running…bike, swim, cross country ski….active. And possibly active recover, and yes strength, stretching and perhaps yoga….

Yeah, the modern art I saw on today’s lunch time 5K….

It was kind of a weird run……after yesterday’s run a spin I was actually planning on a rest day…but, well, yo gotta run?

Started out kind of slow, and had a hard time turning the legs over (the good old Saucony Peregrine’s didn’t seem to have the same old bounce…

The sun was up, it some blue sky…..and the weather mild.

It felt tough, but fine. I took it slow-ish, and just added on as I went along. I thought at first maybe a 4K, why not 5……and well finished at just over 6K…..and felt so good.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why I run….and the conclusion, I just like to run. And I never regret running, or just being active…..moving…..biking seems great…but running….even on days at times when I don’t feel like driving…just taking those first few steps….the head just says, okay….

It’s something I hear a lot when I instruct clinics, either in person, or virtual…that first Zoom meet….I always ask, why?……more often than not, it’s for mental health….and that is so true.

Yeah, I’ve races and fun runs planned for the year…and Vancouver, Edmonton…..lots of trails, roads….but it’s that action, moving…one step…and no, walking just isn’t the same…

The early morning runs have been great….a little hard, I’ve got to get that sleep schedule right, but being the only one out with maybe a coyote or two, therapeutic for sure…..

Now to get to work on that schedule….