Friday

20 laps, 1:2.25 minutes run/walk ratio, 37:10 minutes

Todays was a rather mixed-up run. I'd skipped running Wednesday because of sinus/ear infection, and am still feeling tired and stuffy, but decided to try an easy two miles.

Instead of running 1 lap and walking 1 lap, I ran for about a minute on each running lap, then walked the rest of the way. Added up to about 1 minute running, then 2:15 minutes walking.

I got munged up in the middle when Mom stopped by to see if I wanted to go to town with her. I'd stopped my watch while I talked to her, then restarted it when I resumed running, but forgot to mark my lap. Later, I thought my time was off, but wasn't sure, so I went ahead and finished what my watch said were 19 laps. But when I came in, I managed to dig up the manual for my watch and figure out how to recall a workout, and checked the length of each interval. Sure enough, there was one that was about 3:45 minutes long—obviously 2 laps. So I really ran 20 laps today. Nineteen laps would have been about 35 minutes—a slow day, but not bad.

I was really tired when I finished, but recovered quickly and am fine now. I'm still not sure whether I'm going to be up for running five miles on Sunday, but for now I'll just wait and see.