Greg on the Run

Photos from St. Andrew’s Church’s Fishin for a Mission Banquet, a fundraiser for our overseas ministry partners.

 Ran 13.49 average. A little cold out.

I have a Droid 2.0 and am working on reviewing some tracking apps. I used the Map My Run app. Totally user ignorance that the first part of the 10-mile run wasn’t tracked. I had turned the GPS function off on my phone to save battery. This app has a place to turn the GPS on but it seems as though unless my settings show the GPS as being on, the GPS won’t operate. It’s a minor programming/use interface issue that should be easy to resolve.

Love Boot Camp and what it does for me. But, and this is not the doing of the instructor, sometimes I push hard in Boot Camp and it leaves me with nothing in the tank, sore, or injured for the next run. At Boot Camp, half the group was turned loose to run. No direction, which was fine, just run continuously. After I warmed up, I started dropping in behind faster runners and would hang on their shoulder as long as I could. Some I could hang with for a lap or two, others for 100 yards. Then we did an ab workout with the instrutctor while the other half ran.

Tuesday evening, I started to run from my office to Cooper River Bridge for a hill repeat workout. I didn’t get very far before I realized my adductor was bothersome again. Instead, I drove to the bridge to meet on the Charleston Runs athletes for the hill repeats. I didn’t do the repeats.

On Wednesday morning I was back at the bridge for a group run. I started out with a long warm up before others arrived. Part way up the bridge, I decided that I should walk. I would much rather scale back the effort now than to be forced to scale back or give up the training in September.