Base Miles

I'm not the fastest, but I'm getting faster. I'm not the strongest, but I'm getting stronger. I don't run the  furthest, but I'm running further. I'm trying to enjoy each mile as they come.

The garmin is ready.

My garmin watch has made its first appearances of the year, and that can only mean one thing: it is time to start getting my base miles in for this season. Don't get me wrong, I have been running pretty consistently for the last few months, but I have kept all my runs "by feel". That means that I just run without a solid plan of how far to run or how fast that I'm going. Getting back to enjoying the experience of running. As we all know, sometime it can be a chore to follow a training program, so I always take time to pull back a bit and just let my feet take me where they want to go. The winter is a good time to take off the technology and soak in the feeling of a quality run.

Brisk morning equals a nice hot bowl of oatmeal with raisins and a banana, and then layer up the gear and head out to the lakefront. The wind was a bit chilly, but the sun was shining bright, so anytime that I was not in the breeze, I was breaking a bit of a sweat. There is still some snow on the ground, but the sunshine is making me long for some nice cool spring runs. Soon enough.

Brisk morning at the lake.