Trail (as in "lagging behind") run

I ran for time rather than distance or pace today. I think that might be the way to go for the next few runs, to make them more enjoyable. I certainly enjoyed today's 40-minute trail run along the Parkland Walk. Never mind that it felt like 6 out of 10 for effort; never mind that it might have been slower than eight minutes per mile, or not anything spectacular, distance-wise. It was fun and relaxing and that should be the way most times. And I kept going. Today must have been an anamoly in terms of temperature because it was really humid; we're forecast to have heavy rain the next couple of days, but let's hope it clears before my next run on Wednesday or the weathermen are wrong.

Running twice a week - that's what I'm doing. Enough? Not as much as I would like, but for now it'll have to be that way. I have twelve-hour days on four or five days of the week, and six hours on Saturday - on some of those days it's seven hours straight without a break. I'll do more runs during the week if I feel I have the energy, but on paper and judging from this week, two runs a week, and walking about 2 miles a day, is going to be enough to wear me out.

I'm hoping to keep to doing one set per bodypart each day. Some days it might mean doing dips using chairs in between lesson changeovers, or I might be back to the days of curling snare drums and squatting bass drums at work - but that's fun. Just don't tell the students what I get up to.