The previous post I made was a rant of the lack of focus in
running as work gets in its way. For the
past work week I thought that I would never get back on track – this with the opening
of our branch at Pulilan; it was a Friday – scheduled for a morning 5k run to
prep for a Saturday long run, but instead, had to wake up 5am to be at the
office by 7am to travel.
Basically it was a day full of tiresome standing/walking and
road trips as we visited 2 stores in the north – Marquee Mall and S&R
Pampanga. I enjoyed it as well as I got
to visit the two stores. But what
excited me more was seeing R.O.X. shop at Marquee Mall. Unfortunately I didn’t get to go inside it as
I had no time. So I just waved goodbye
at it as we passed by (also saw R.O.X. when we went to CDO this Monday, but
again didn’t get to go inside). Would’ve
gotten myself a visor had I gone inside.
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| Dubia colony - kinda cute |
Anyway, yes that day was a tiring day that I never thought
of running in the morning. But I got
this text message late in the day that I could get the feeders of my spiders in
Monumento area at 7:00am the next day. Since
I really needed those feeders, I decided to run and get it at the same time.
As it is with “all” spider/feeders hobbyist that I happen to
come across with, they’re late! By 7am I
was already at the meeting place after having ran 7km. I managed to run at least 3km more while
waiting for him to arrive. Anyway after
having met him, 30 minutes after the agreed time and knowing that he forgot to
bring my order (but he gave me another set that’s of bigger value for my
inconvenience, thank you) I finally got to run back home for an additional
3.5km. It was around 8am this time so
the sun was waaaay up high.
It was amazing to see that I have managed to run 13.5km that
day. Although the run-walk-rest in
between while waiting for the delivery boy could’ve been a factor why I got to
run that long without the heaviness.
Since it bothers me that much thinking that I have “cheated”
my way to 13.5km that day, I decided to run the next day again. I decided to just run a 5k that day, just to
be sure that I maximize mileage without injuring me. But on the 3.5km mark, it felt easy – so I
just ran until I got to my starting point, and it was 8km.
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| Around 55 miles for April |
So there it was, running a good 13.5k plus 8k on a weekend
that I thought would be nothing more of a R&R weekend, and I felt my calf
and quads stiff. I applied cold compress
on those stiff muscles (while I got to sleep 3 times yesterday). They’re not that sore when I woke up this
morning – which is a very welcome thing!
Overall, I reached the 90km mileage for April, a little down
from the 106km last March (where there was a long weekend plus a 10-miler race
I joined). Not bad at all, coming from a
week where I thought would be a disaster for my target mileage. I might add another 5k tomorrow for my
morning run. Making up for running isn’t
as hard as making up for other things - Its quite enjoyable actually.
