Weekly Log 3-Feb to 9-Feb

Friday: I hate winter
Calvin is the best when building snowman

Thursday: 3.5 treadmill

Wednesday: 3.5 treadmill

Tuesday: 3.5 treadmill

Monday: 3

Back to the routine – wake up EARLY run outside in the cold dark streets of Groton, CT (I hate winter) - Nahhhhhhh.  Funny how I got use to sleeping in – entire 1/2 hr more (whew) while I was injured. So this morning I decided I would run on the treadmill in a controlled environment watching the recap of the Super Bowl along with that traffic girl on channel 8.

Side note - for us ageing or mature runners – a fellow runner and colleague mentioned to me about a pain relief and healing therapeutic cream called Topricin http://www.topricin.com . So this past weekend thought I would pick some up. A local Westerly store carries it (Allen’s Heath Foods) next to Subway. Little expensive - $25 but I want to run without pain so I thought I would give it a try. This is the third day using this cream on my knee and I’m already feeling improvement. I suggest Googleing it – I know some of you young wipersnappers are against using any pain relief – pill or cream, but the younger generation is naïve, they dress funny and they like to run trails. For those who don’t get it – this is sarcasm.

Sunday: 4

Went from house for a quick 4 before my boy indoor LAX game. Mid-morning, little chilly – but who cares, I’m running. Kept looking at space watch to see what pace I was going – pleased considering I haven’t run in weeks. As I started UP the hill on Elmridge road I notice another runner was just about at the top of the hill. So since I did not race with rest of team members I decided the hunt was on. I pushed the last 1/3 of the hill (steepest part) and was closing the gap – had a little pain in the knee – who cares – hunt is on. As I got to the top I was sucking in air, not use to running in cold weather (I hate winter) but I gained grown. At this time I notice that the turn was coming up where I had to make my way back home. Everything was feeling ok, and it felt good being out there in the middle of a hunt. Still need to work on speed work. I ending up catching up with this other runner (sorry Jeff, I did not have a WTAC application) then made my right turn. The runner was my neighbor so I will put a WTAC application in his mailbox along with a recipe for turtle soup. Conclusion – After coming back from injury it felt good to run at a descent pace.