The rain stayed away yesterday. In fact, it was sunny and cloudless when I went out to run at noon. A bit chilly, but gorgeous. As before I ran until I was too out of breath, walked for a minute and ran some more. I would guess I was up to 75% running yesterday. My pace is not that far off from where I was before I got injured, so I believe that I am still running a bit too fast, but I'm okay with that. It would be nice if I could end up with a better pace after all of this. Plus I'm running distance rather than time - in other words, I used to just go out and do 30 minutes. Now I'm doing 3 miles and yesterday I was nearly 5 minutes faster than my run last week. So - progress! I expect that by next week I'll be doing the entire 3 miles nonstop. And the foot -- a little bit sore last night before bed. But not sore enough to have to ice or take anything for it, which is also great news.
I have noticed that the pollen is not so bad as it was a few weeks ago, which is another boost to my running. Except for the asthma bit, my allergies have been quite calm so far. Wouldn't it be fantastic if I could go the whole of the spring and summer without that nonsense?
Noon knitting today and I brought my Hitofude, which has languished since Sunday. I wanted to pick it up last night but then I was rather more keen to read and that's what I ended up doing. I'm also listening to a Philip Roth novel - American Pastoral. Wow -- that is quite a departure from the historical novels I've been listening to. And so well narrated by Ron Silver. I am not looking forward to it ending, it's that good. Disturbing, but good. I've always liked Philip Roth. I wonder how I missed this one?
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