Heads of State Run

I've decided to entertain myself by naming my runs. TODAY WAS MY FIRST RUN IN NEW HAVEN AND IT WAS EXCELLENT!

Ok it was super flat and the weather was perfect, but I was running on the sidewalk on residential streets with lots of lights, and I totally hate that.

Anyway, it was supposed to be my "Orange Juice" run, as I was planing to run on Orange St. up to the Black Rock (? East Rock?) park and back, but Orange had WAY too many lights, so I ran up State St., hence the name "Heads of State" run.

So I ran about 4.25 miles in 39 minutes, which translates into 9:10 miles. In other words: I'm more or less where I left off in NYC two weeks ago, and I think that's a really good thing! I felt totally fine and was tempted to run more, but I don't want to push myself too fast and then have an injury. I think these 4-5 mile runs over approx. 40 minutes are perfect and can be done every day without too much stress on the body. I'm thinking tomorrow I'll complete the 5 miles with a crazy hill half way through the run (my turnaround point was a little side entrance to East Rock park, although I think the entire park is called Black Rock park...anyway, I think I'll go inside and see where that hill takes me, which will be intense and cool).

You can see the route for my run here.

GO ME!

VC