Eric's Ride Log

Erinna has been running 3 times or more a week for the past couple of years and I've not joined in on that particular brand of torture until... very recently. Drawn by the idea of exercise from the front door, and an alternative means of raising my heartrate in the cold months, I decided to get off my butt and start running. A few weeks ago I got out for about two miles and came back hardly able to walk down stairs. Erinna and I did the same loop a week or so after that and whatayaknow, I didn't hurt as bad as the first time. Progress? Well, we went to Williamsburg for my sister's birthday / Thanksgiving and inbetween feasts we got out and went further than I had run since I was in the Air Force.... Maybe 5 miles? I was mentally unprepared to go that far that day... but as it turned out the run to Colonial Williamsburg was just far enough to get a good, solid, warm-up in. The miles up and back on Duke Of Gloucester Street were fun, slow, and not all that hard. The run back to my sister's house kicked my ass though... and my knees were feeling rickity for a good few days.
Today I decided to go at it again. Fresh off the longest run in 13 years I got in a solid hour around the neighborhood and down to the mellowdrome park. The sculpture show is still going on so the run around the park was slow since I was taking in the sights... hell, it was slow because the pace Erinna and I kept in W'burg was slow.... and that's a fine pace for me for now.

Rich has challenged me to join him for a big run in January.... if I keep this up I just may do it.