Finding my Stride

Joy here...After Monday's rest day, Tuesday was scheduled as a 75min. run with 6 strides.  Now I have written about strides before, about how strides operate, and how strides can bring some fun into a run, and how strides strangely made my knee feel better when it was starting to pain me in the summer as I trained for my first ever half marathon.  But since we had some sort of extenda-off season that seemed to last for much of November and all of December, I haven't been adding strides to my runs lately.  Heck, I've just counted it an accomplishment to get out the door with my feet moving beneath me!

But Tuesday's run was different.  We had those 6 strides scheduled, and my newfound determination to stick to my workouts so that I can actually complete this 30km race in March, I was going to do those strides no matter what, and I successfully completed them all!

A little cartoon showing the juxtaposition of
winter's sunlight and winter's snow.

As luck would have it, the day was crisp, clear, and bright, with very little in the way of snow on the ground.  While much of Europe has been inundated with record levels of snow, closing airports and schools, we in Ottawa have so far been treated to much less snow than usual.

So, refreshed after a day off working out and given the gift of afternoon sun and clear paths to run upon, out the door we went to tick off another run to be new-and-improved 2011 selves.

Here are my run stats:
Ran for a total of 1:15:00 for a distance of 12.14km with an average pace of 6:11min/km.

So I'm still not burning up the road with speed or anything like that, but I am patient enough to let that come with time.  I'm sure that by including these runs with strides a few times a week, eventually I'll hit my own stride!

Over and out,
Joy