WOOHOO Running Outside

I really hope that the end of winter is finally here and the warm weather they are calling for for the next week is real. I am sick of winter and we have just endured almost 6 months of it here. To add insult to injury it has been a good winter too. And by good I mean bad. It was cold, snowy and long! But alas the spring like weather is starting and hopefully it will stay!

Today was the first day in a long time that I have ran outside. Yes I know I can dress warm enough to run outside when it is -30 but just remember I am a carpenter and I work outside all winter. So after working outside at -30 all day the last thing that I want to do is run outside. Therefore I run inside where it is warm. But today was a different story.

My girlfriend and I decided to run together outside in the balmy +3C. It was sunny and really a perfect day for a run. So the result was a 30 minute run with a 9 minute cooldown for a total distance of 4.77 Km. That was a nice run. Some hills and some flats and I felt really really good at the end.

It's amazing how the different disciplines of triathlon really work together and make you stronger. It doesn't seem like you do alot of distance through the week and then at the end you are doing something and realize how it is all adding together. It's really kinda cool.

Also going to start using a Garmin Forerunner 305 with GPS and heart rate so I will be able to track and post things a little more accurately for my runs and my rides. Will have to start wearing a watch in the pool too so I can see if I am getting any faster or not.

Well that's it for tonight. I'll bore you some more tomorrow!

SYL

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