Part of Alan's running adventure classified as Running
I’m thinking I need to pick an organized run to aim for. I got up early on a Sunday determined to have a better paced run of my “usual” 6 mile loop. Okay, I should not have stayed up til midnight watching an awful movie (”Ice Harvest”, a real dog), but I did get a nice long afternoon nap yesterday.
Anyhow, I decided to shake up the routine by running the loop in the opposite direction. It dod not go well, when I turned the corner to head north on Pima (behind the wall from the main Pima road). I was going pretty darn slow as as. I saw cones and yellow tape across Pima, but figured it was pacing and I could head up the sidewalk. But it looked like something different as there was a police car stopped acrss the raod, lights flashing. The cop was not happy I had crossed the line, and was not very open when I asked if I could pass around the back of his car. It looked like a car had rammed a telephone pole, as it was bent and tilted. It was a dumb thing for me to do, and the cop yelled at me, “did’t you see the barrier”, so I hunched back, and retreated, and had to back track a different route north.
As my spirit guide would say, “What a Maroon!”
I was pretty plodding along the rest of the route, just determined to finish the loop I had committed to. There were a few stretches of somewhat better paced, nothing near the run of my last half marathon though. I feel pretty much like I lost all the training done over the last 9 months, and was at ground zero.
Also, today was the first day running with the new insulin pump loaded with real insulin. I am imagining as I learn to fine tune it, for running, I will need to do a temp basal drop to decrease the flow while exercising.
And the sun was baking blazing hot… and it is only May. We always forget the full intensity of the Arizona summer until it hits us again.
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