Highway 350

I ran 13 miles on Highway 350 this morning. AB ran 8 with a sore hip.
I'll update with more info on this run and the week later.

UPDATE: My 13 on 350 this morning capped off an excellent week of running. I love Highway 350. Pictured is hill No. 2. The great thing about 350 is the hills. The course starts out with a two mile flat stretch followed by hill after hill after steep steep hill. If you run 350 often enough you don't recognize what other people call hills as hills. Corinth has a great group of runners who meet on 350 or at Shiloh National Park each week. The group is led by Kenneth "Koach" Williams. He does a great job of keeping everybody charged up and ready to run. He also supplies free PowerAde, or "Hydration". If you live close by you should come join us some Saturday. I promise you this, regular runs on 350 will get you in shape.

I think my body has just about recovered from the St. Jude Memphis Marathon and I'm ready to continue with an upward training program. Here's what I did this week:

Monday: 5 (would have been six but was cut short by rain)

Tuesday: 6

Wednesday: 5.5 on the treadmill (I remembered I don't like treadmills)

Thursday: 6

Saturday: 13

Total: 35.5

That's not a ton of miles, but I was pleased with my ability to run four days in a row with no apparent problems. I plan to do the same thing again next week, and may add a mile or two. 

I now have two goals: 

1. Cut as much time as I can off that 3:57 in Memphis.

2. Complete the Transrockies in August.

Both goals require me to increase my weekly mileage if I want to get faster and stronger. So, I was pleased with this first week of training and my ability to string together four runs with no negative effects. 

I bought a new pair of shoes today - the New Balance 768. Supposedly, it's a "stability" shoe. The arches of my feet did cause me some amount of pain after the marathon. I had been running in more of a neutral shoe, i.e., the New Balance 992. After watching me jog on the sidewalk in front of the store, the guy at the Memphis Fleet Feet told me I definitely needed a stability shoe and that should help the arches. I tried on several different pairs of shoes and my two oldest girls raced me up and down the sidewalk in front of the store as I tested them out. It was fun for all or us. It's always fun to buy a new pair of shoes. I feel faster already.