Another day, another run...

Ran today.  I'm trying to figure out a way to keep the runs interesting, since I'm running faster and can't just run to the same location and do a full timed run that way - makes it seem a lot longer.....

It takes about 15 minutes to get to the mall.  Got there today and ran around the Capitol on the way back home.  Some day I'll run down the mall, but that's not a short-term goal.

I've tried to time my runs (or at least looking at my watch) by the number of songs played on my ipod.  Right now I look after three songs - thinking that would be about 14 .... er.... 12 .... er.... 11 minutes*.  Ok, only 11 minutes, still have some scheming to do to keep all this interesting.....

The run itself was fine - minus the perfume of the budding evils among us.  To most, it is a beautiful odor that wafts among the many blooming flowers of spring.  To those like me, it is malodorous omen of collapsing sinuses and teary eyes..... sneezes soon follow and I lose the rhythm of the run....

Anyway, no cramping arches.  My back ribs cramped a little, think it was from the bike ride yesterday.  Had to walk twice to let that pass, but pass it did.  Going downhill near the end of the run, had pain where 8 years ago I had a stress fracture.  Briefly panicked, but remembered that bone breaks usually heal stronger than the original bone (so they can break around the original break, not in that exact spot, probably), but the pain stopped once I began walking and didn't start up after that.  Probably just a cramp.  

I'm trying out new shoe laces (yes, only the best - you can even get laces to streamline your time - no kidding.....).  They are these weird elastic bands that you cinch at the tongue of the shoe.  I've tried it on the right shoe, and on last week's run, my arch cramped up, so I think I may need the tightness of real tie-up laces.  Right now I have the right shoe with these weird blue laces and the left shoe with the normal white laces.  Probably looks pretty silly on the run, especially since I haven't trimmed the blue laces yet, and they plop all around as I run.  They make the shoe much looser on your foot, so I think I'll remove them and go back to the troglodyte solution**.   

*Note to self..... get longer songs.....

**Well, not really, since cavemen didn't have shoes, much less laces.  More like archaic.