Improvisational exercise

So I went to the gym at lunch and immediately noticed the parking lot in front of it was totally empty, not a good thing.  I park and look at the sign on the door.  It said the gym was closed due to an “emergency”. Um ok.  Well I had decided today was going to be a treadmill day so it was pretty easy for me to simply redirect my effort to an outdoor venue instead.

Less than a half mile away is a great little park that has a scenic running trail around the property.  Ali and I used to run there on a regular basis when Ali used to run on a regular basis.  The course is sort of unique, not only do you get to run around a huge lake that has various wildlife, native Florida vegetation, a small beach and a quiet ambiance, you get to run UPHILL.  It’s really sort of odd the way it works. 

If you run the course counter clockwise you wind up running a large portion of it on a gradual incline which adds to the intensity.  The odd thing is if you run clockwise you run much less of an incline for much less distance and instead wind up running downhill for quite a stretch.  Of course I chose the uphill route.

Right after I finished stretching it was almost like somebody shut off the hot sun on request.  The sun stayed behind clouds during the entire run, now if I could just find the button to turn off the humidity. I had no GPS watch along, no exact measurements of how fast or how long I ran.   I just ran the course.  If I was to guesstimate the run was somewhere between three and three and a half miles. 

I was a sweaty mess afterwards.  The change of shirt was definitely handy today.  I thoroughly doused myself with Shower to Shower when I got back to the office.  Running 3 mile + outdoors for the second time in three days surprisingly was pretty much pain free, I’m digging it.