Week 2, Session 2

1 min run,  2 min walk X 7 reps
Playlist: WTFPod - Rob Riggle

My distance fell quite short of the Stanley Park bridge today. That was to be expected. Mid week runs are always lighter after a new time/distance is introduced. It was nice to have that break. I think I needed it.

I'm starting to get this dread where I'm walking down to the seawall for my run and I don't know if I'm going to have the gumption to finish. I used to get the same thing back in 2004, the last time I trained (successfully) for the Sun Run. It eventually went away and was usually weather related. Today was grey, but not too cold. My ankle has been bugging me. That may have contributed. Nothing to worry about yet, though.

It sucks being fat. The one key fat-guy issue related to my training is body aches. When you're carrying around more weight than your body is designed to, for years, the joints in your legs have a habit of stiffening up and feeling like you've broken something. I had a wonky knee a few years back. That killed my aspirations of doing the 2008 Sun Run. (I just noticed! Q4Years! A tradition is born!) I went to physio and got it sorted, but continued to flare up from time to time. When that happens, I draw upon the lessons that I learned in physio - exercising the muscles around a problem joint to protect the ligaments - and fix it myself. Right now my knee is great, but for the past few months, one of my Achilles tendons (I think) has been on strike. I can't point my toes on that foot without it hurting and I can't sit on my heels when I'm down on the floor playing with the kids. I focus my stretching on that heel, but the pain doesn't go away. It just subsides. Thankfully, it hasn't sidelined me. If anything, the running is helping to fix it... that or the stretching. Good side effects: I'll take 'em.

Today's run had a bit of a diversion. A Sea King was doing manoeuvres over Coal Harbour. I snapped this as it was landing on Deadman's Island: 

Sorry. It was dark and I just did a quick snap with the IPhone. I think it might have been taking cadets for a joy ride. I wanna be a cadet. Maybe I can convince one of my boys to join...