As any runner will tell you, the day after you significantly more or significantly faster than normal you always, ALWAYS have to do a little shake out run so your legs don’t completely lock up. Due to scheduling conflicts and more than a little laziness, I did not follow up Sunday’s ten miler with a little 3 miler on Monday. Today, I went to the River with Jessica to take care of business and paid dearly for not doing it yesterday. The first mile was awful. The second mile was awfuler. The third felt OK.
Still, my legs had the pliability of a Ritz cracker – hard to bend, easy to break. So I had to be a little careful. I’ve been paying attention to my breathing patterns. Inthe second half of the ten miler, I really focused on going four strides in, four strides out as much as possible. Up the steep hills I was 3 in 3 out, which isn’t bad. It’s when I get to 2 in 2 out that I run into trouble. For me, that’s the running equivalent of hyperventilating and I can’t sustain it for long. I get into it on really steep hills, but I just have to be careful.
I’m starting to get a feel for how we are going to record our record, but we haven’t come up with a band name yet. We’l start strategizing this weekend. I’ve got two tunes almost totally done at Brian Collins’ studio, but I want to do a whole record with the guys and plan it out. Just haven’t figured out how to set it up and fund it yet I’ve got some ideas though…
