footloose

I spent some of the afternoon sort of prodding the outside of my foot and then extending the toes, drawing them back and so on. I suppose I have to grudgingly admit to stretching, something that, as a rule, I never do at all. Anyway, by the time I got home I still had a dull ache on the outside of the right foot but the shin and top of the foot had gotten bored and stopped joining in. Could be OK to run on.

I fed and showered the kids before the wife got home. AJ completed her homework. At least she told me she had, I'm not super attentive because she's 6 and could be doing far more fun stuff. That said, her homework is copying a few words then some reading, she's really good at both and enjoys them, so it's not a struggle to get done.

With Sal home I had the bargaining chip of "well you've got nothing to do because I've done the lot! Can I go for a run?" I grabbed a running skullcap and put a white singlet over my Helly Hanson polypro top. DAMN I LOOKED GOOD. Maybe a little overdressed, but it is a tad chilly.

First few steps and the foot felt OK. I was favouring it and probably landing far more mid-foot than usual, but it was certainly OK to run on. The route was my stock beach loop (winter/dark diversion) and it was really quite pleasant to be out under a nice fat, full moon. I made it to Manly in about 20minutes, which may become important later in the month, and finished my 11.6km at an average pace of 4.44/km. Not going to set the land speed record, but certainly wasn't babying the foot.

Pretty pleased about that; I retract the morning walk, for today I ran! Huzzah! Around 34km so far this Juneathon, which is a bit behind what I was hoping for and I might have to downgrade my expectations for this month. That's OK though*.

One last thing. Seems runingfreeonline really does not want to talk to my new Garmin Vivoactive, so it's Strava for e this Juneathon. Tried Chrome, Safari and Firefox before it went in the too-hard basket. Ho-hum.

*of course it isn't