After last night’s Team-D kick off, I decided to make a slight change in my training runs. Our schedule lists several runs a week by suggested lengths of time to run…. last year, I ended up choosigin desitances I guessed would ahve me running that length of time, so I was sometimes over, sometimes under.

So my routes were mostly loops, and I would run a distance, sometimes hopeing to improve my time at that distance.

But today I turned it around, and set up an out an back route along the Scottsdale Greenbelt, to run the scheduled 40 minutes. It was okay, no lightning speed, but the key is on the way back seeing how close you can get to being at the same start point by the designated time.. I ended up about 50 yards short, so a tad slower on the back stretch, not much though.

So in this way, as I run the same time, I may aim to increase the distances.

It’s nothing revolutionary or novel, but I am giving it a try. Also, on the suggestions last Saturday from Coach Dave, rather than doing my stretches at my house before and after the tun, I now start the routine with a jog down to the park, do my stretches there, and then take off. I end at the same spot, cool down by walking home, where I do my last stretches.