Belated running update

[wojelah]

Friday's run went well - I think I'm likely to stay at this speed or only marginally faster next week, to let my body adjust a bit more. All told, I covered 3 miles in 56 min, 55 seconds. My ankle's still a little uncertain - it's the joint, not the tendon - it keeps wanting to pop. It's gotten steadily better, so I'll just keep an eye on it and see what's what.

I also need to figure out where I can run during the week that I'm here but not working. Fortunately, it's a shorter run week - the long run is only 7 miles, although the mid-week longish run bumps up to six. I could, I suppose, simply get up uber-early and run at the park and hope the humidity won't eat me alive. It would be good practice for the week after that, which is beach-week, when the long run is 12 miles - which raises another question: at the beach, the options are to run on hard-packed sand or to run on the sidewalk. Votes as to which will be better?

Friday's pattern:

1st 5 min: walk 3.1 mph 2 min, run 3.1 mph 1 min, run 3.2 mph 2 min
2nd-3rd: walk 3.1 mph 2 min, run 3.2 mph 3 min
4th: walk 3.1 mph 2 min, run 3.2 mph 2 min 30 sec, run 3.3 mph 30 sec
5th-8th: walk 3.1 mph 2 min, run 3.2 mph 2 min, run 3.3 mph 1 min
9th-11th: walk 3.1 mph 2 min, run 3.2 mph 2 min 30 sec, run 3.3 mph 30 sec
remainder: walk 3.1 mph