Running update. August 31st is the unofficial end of summer. My wife and my grandsons come back to school. No more beach and now I have to plan my next running program.
This month I have plenty of time to organize the mornings without being in hurry to enjoy the company of my grandsons and to go to the beach. However heat and humidity are always here!
Summer was bad and complicated for my running, but I don't want to bore you with the list of my troubles.
However I want to share with you some reflections (= lesson learned):
I am not a wise runner, I forget my age and my injures, usually I don't listen to my body and often I run when I should stop myself taking a break. This summer I have run even if I felt weak and the weather was hot: so I had to delete the scheduled races and I could do few short workouts at a slow pace. I began to swim but I pushed too much, I stretched the muscle of my right arm, now it hurts and I cannot swim anymore for a couple of months....... but I can run and the last 2 workouts went very well, I ran faster and for more than 10 km on a hilly route. I am improving ......
Learned the lessons, I promise to myself:
1. To listen always to my body;
2. Cross training must not be a system to improve my performances but the solution to relax my body and to recover after the running workouts;
3. The running routine has to be one workout every other day;
4. Every 3 days in a row 1 day off (running-cross training-running-rest);
5. No more than 2 races per month;
6. Always healthy food with many fruits and vegetables.
Fruits. Along one of my running paths I can see again raspberries, persimmons and prickly pears
Critters. My cat, the king of the garden and the owner of the house, realized that another cat, every night, comes to sleep in our garage where we also stock our old furnishings. He got angry and did an ambush to the invader. Here you can see him hidden before the bloody attack!
Sunset. and now the sunset on the sea:
