It's official!

I received notification that I am registered in the Blue Nose 10K, part of the Scotiabank Blue Nose Marathon on May 22, 2011!

Our blogs should be online soon, but I will keep posting on here to keep a personal copy of my progress.

Good run last Saturday, same route as the week before but we ran more of it, almost all 5 kilometres. It wasn't nearly as cold as last week, so it wasn't a dealbreaker that I forgot my gloves.

Team Myles - Running Keeps You Warm!

This was my first Saturday run with Team Myles. We started at Push Fitness, walked as a group to the corner of Young and Inglis (1.6 km), then ran to the end of Young Avenue and returned to Push. The run was 3.4 km, for a total distance of 5 km.

It was sunny but very cold today, -16 with the wind chill, so I am glad I had fleece on under my outer layer. My calf injury did not flare up, so that is a good thing!

Unfortunately, I will be double-booked on Wednesday with my Cub pack, but I will do the 4.2 km run either Tuesday or Thursday.

Team Myles - First Run!

Well, it was my first run with Team Myles. The inaugural team run was actually on Saturday (January 15), but I was already committed to running a camp with my Cub pack when I found out the date of the first run.

Before tonight's run, we warmed up with Devon Norris of Push Fitness (he played for the Rainmen last year, this blog has numerous Rainmen entries). Devon got us ready to go and I enjoyed doing the stretches as a group, it reminded me of my rugby-playing days!

Tonight's run was 3 laps around the Commons, 1.4 kilometres each time around, for a total of 4.2 kilometres. We had to buddy up for the run, my run buddy was Peter Harrison. We ran at a good pace, did each loop in about 10 minutes. My calf muscle that I injured last year flared up again (I tweaked it last week, so this was not a surprise). Luckily for me, it did not disable me from running, although when I lengthened my stride to speed up a bit while passing some other Team Myles members, I felt it get close to tearing again. I am going to have to be careful with this thing, I don't want to miss out on training because of a preventable injury!

After the run, we visited Lifemark Physio to have our gait analyzed and to measure our feet for the Adidas running shoes we will get with Team Myles. Sara was very knowledgeable and I guess I have the biggest feet of all the Team Myles members, what an accomplishment!

I felt really good after the run, actually invigorated. I look forward to Saturday morning's run!