Made time for a short run before picking up kiddo from school so he didn’t have to ride the bus. It was a gorgeous afternoon.

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I 💜 autumn 🍂 runs.

I am slowing building up endurance again due to a tendon injury. It’s as healed as it going to get, now I need to strengthen it and drop the weight I gained not running or eating properly.

Metric units: 5.1km, pace of 9:06/km, 46 min 26 sec seems to translate to metric unless I’m behind 🤪
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Happy Autumn 🍂 if you are in the northern hemisphere. I’ve been a bit quiet and still lately, trying to heal my Achilles tendon. The weather was beautiful and I was fairly pain free.

I fitted the shoes with new insoles, programmed 90 second run/90 second walk interval workout, laced up, and hit the path. Kiddo called and we chatted the last .75 miles (1.2 km). I have room to go to gain back fitness but am so happy.

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I planned to run one of my favorite #RailsToTrails this morning. After I parked, I noticed a lot of activity for 7 am on a Saturday. Most were family groups with young children so I plucked up courage & asked a family about the activity.

I nearly joined a 5K without registering aka a bandit run🤪 After a quick internet search, discovered it was for a local org that I do not support so left to find my own quiet spot.

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Sometimes, I pick a route on #RailsToTrails that has unpaved trails winding off the main path. I usually start at the trailhead marking path 5 & travel roughly counterclockwise. In total, it’s about a mile if I do all the zigzags. I opted to go in at a midpoint & out at the path 5 trailhead, traveling clockwise. I don’t love the downhill run while dodging roots. Much prefer the same path but uphill. After that warmup Rails to Trails was easier 🤣

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#Garmin offered two new badges for the #Running activity this month. I’m a sucker for imaginary interwebz points. #BeatYesterday badges challenge us to run 5 out of 7 days for two weeks. For each consecutive run, run 5 minutes longer than the previous run. We earn one badge for 1 week and a second badge for weeks in a row. If I get my butt in gear tomorrow morning, I’ll earn the week one badge.
Flowers lined the #RailsToTrails &Riverwalk. #BloomScrolling
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This was a fundraiser for a local domestic violence shelter. I love the energy 💜 This is my second year. We got a little off course in the middle of mile one, but what’s an extra 0.4 mile/0.64 km among runners?!?

I enjoyed cheering on kiddos as they ran, seeing faces from last year, and debriefing our runs. The organizers were worried about sending us off route but if that’s the worse that happened, I think it was a success!!

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#3goodthings
1. Kiddo is becoming a very good driver
2. Fantastic long run while he attended the beginning high school graduation as a band member. I chose an unpaved part of the trail today. I wasn’t sure how this would go after the 5K race yesterday. Very happy with my effort 💜
3. Beautiful weather for graduation and my long run. I felt like I needed a couple more miles but my time ran out and needed to get kiddo from school.

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