First Day of Outdoor Running in 2010
March 18, 2010 was a beautiful, sunny and warm day with a light breeze. The temperature was probably about 16°C outside. This was the first day I ran outside in 2010 and it was pretty nice. Although I didn’t run very well I’m glad the temperature is warming up.
I was a little disappointed in myself for performing so badly but I think it’s probably because I haven’t exercised for the past 3 weeks. I just came back from a 2 week trip to China where most of it was spent sitting on a bus or plane, eating way too much food, walking and sleeping. The week before I left for China I was sick and spent the week resting to get better. I didn’t want to push myself too hard in case I became more sick and couldn’t go to China.
Knowing I might not be able to run as far as I used to run, I set a shorter goal for my first outdoors run of 2010, 4.2K, and completed that in about 30 mins but had to walk for 2 stretches. Looking at my previous times from October 2009 I used to run 4.2K in about 29 mins. Thus to run the same distance, with walking stretches and lights, in almost the same time, I can conclude that my running pace is probably faster than whatever is was in October 2009. I’ve happy with any improvement and since that looks like improvement to me – yay!
Now that I’m back from China and Spring is here it’s time to start running again and get back to P90X. Let’s GO!
