Oh Yea!

I went on a tempo run today. I started off very slow, running 12min miles. This was to hopefully warmup my shin muscle things. I was even running on peoples lawns next to the road to soften the blow. I ran through a park, and along side a cemetary to find the grass. I think this helped, along with the gradual pickup of speed. I just had to watch out for fallen tree brances that I could not see because it was dark. Those bastards can sneek up on you in a hurry.

Also, since I am a physics major, and we love making graphs, I will treat you to one of my run today. The blue line is speed, and the red one is my avg heart rate over each mile. I think that is pretty close to textbook on how to do a tempo run.


As y0ou can see I increased my speed slowly, then kept up a good pace for a while, then droped off to cool down. Its always a good feeling to know you went out and rocked a run.

And on an injury update, I have my shin wrapped in ice as I type this, but it did not hurt at all during the run. Since Tuesday's run irritated it on Wednesday, we'll see how it is tommorow. But again things are looking up.