On the road again

10K through the city. My calves were really really tight. Not sure if it's cause I took two days off, or rather if my shoes really need to be replaced.

Mississauga

Signed up for the half marathon in May in Mississauga. This pretty much gives me two racing season, the spring and the fall.

The spring will focus on either the 10K or the half.. I'm really curious to see if I can manage a faster 10K than last year. It was near perfect racing conditions and I ran my ass off. Since that race, however, my focus had been on half marathons, and I'm eager to focus on that. In any case, the two races are a week apart, which means one will have to take precedence over the other.

Chicago is obivously the focus of the fall, but I'm not really looking at that now.. Best to think of it when June arrives.

New gear

Rare sale at my local running store, so snapped up a Sugoi Venture outer shell. I'm hoping it's better at repelling water than my MEC jacket.

Also, as my Asics GT1100 are soon running out of life, I bought a nice replacement for a bargain.

Saturday

Warm day, 9 degrees, couldn't resist going out before the sun went down at 5:30. Did 11K and have successfully boosted my mileage.

Weekly total: 46K
Year to date: 171K

Three days

Well, I pretty much caught up on my mileage this week. I'm up to about 35K now, after my 10K today.

It was a rare daylight weekday run, and I decided to run up Bay Street, which meant battling the hordes of commuters making a dash for Union Station, then I ran west on Bloor, which meant I was going against the tide of students finishing up at U ofT, then south on Spadina, where Chinatown was bustling. Nice day draw out crowds.