This is a sample of how I get to bore you all with my running exploits on the treadmill until Old Man Winter relaxes his grip on the outside up heah in Maine. 🙂

As usual my body feels worse the second day after a longer or harder workout. When I got up everything was complaining about the abuse I put it through yesterday with the weights and also let me know that the left calf wasn’t too thrilled with that longer run on Monday. Yeah, we had a conversation about all the stoppid stuff I am putting it through. Especially, when it would just be so much easier to sit in the recliner, petting our cat and watching something inane on the television or wandering around the internet laughing at cat videos.

So, what did I do.

I went back to the gym and played around on the treadmill for 40:00 minutes. The usual 5:00 minute warm-up at 3.6 mph and then 30:00 minutes at 5.1 mph, with a 5:00 cool-down. Initially, I wondered if the leg was going to cooperate, but by the time I got through with the warm-up, it was almost ready to go. When I got to the 5:00 minute mark of the run, I was doing okay.

Sometimes you gotta listen to the body and other times you gotta go ahead and push it a bit, to see if it is as Steven Pressfield calls it “Resistance” or is it really something to worry about. I’ve pretty much figured out the difference and knew that as long as I didn’t do anything really stoopid (like increasing the speed or incline on the treadmill), that I’d probably be fine once I got going. Which was the case.

I won’t call it a great workout, but it is another brick in the wall and since the wall has been knocked down too many times over the past couple of years, I got a lot of work to do before it resembles a wall again.

I spent 30:00 minutes in the sauna and was talking to a couple of Marine and Navy vets, who were born after I retired and we all laughed at that. Seemed like decent guys.

Otherwise another pretty quiet day and probably going to storm later if the forecast is to be believed, but when the temp is 44* in January in Maine, you just gotta go with the flow and smile. Because you know that winter ain’t over and it will come back with a vengeance soon than later.