Today I ran away from work. I mean, I ran home from work 🙂
I have realized that I’m just not making time for my workouts after busing home, and that doubling up the commute with the workout is a very manageable solution. I’m aiming for alternating runs and rides on most weekdays. Tomorrow I’ll do neither, as I have to drive to an end-of-day dentist appointment, but most of the time I should be able to manage a couple of weekday runs and a few weekday bike rides per week.
When I bike to work, I bring my work clothes in a backpack. I clean up with baby wipes and deodorant in the bathroom. Biking is not as strenuous as running, so I don’t sweat much, particularly on cold mornings so far.
Today I took the bus to work and brought everything I’d need to run home. A key item was my running belt, which held my wallet, keys and phone. I left my work clothes at work and will bring them home tomorrow. Perhaps as I build my fitness back up later this spring I will try running both to and from work, but a one-way run is fine for now.
My running commute home today took me through Prince’s Island Park and up the curling club hill. I only ran half way up the cch, but I will run all the way up it again someday soon. I continued on, stopping into Gord’s Running Store for a quick hello. I hadn’t greeted Gord for awhile, so it was fun to stop in.
After Gord’s I ran past way too many restaurants. Pizza joints, a couple of Greek places, more pizzerias, whooboy. Finally at the Dairy Queen on 19th Avenue I turned off on some more interesting and less hunger-inducing residential streets, and then ended up on my bus route home. I wasn’t sure how far I would want to run today, and liked having the bus as back-up, but I didn’t need it after all. Dawn often runs along her bus route and I have always wanted to try that. Thanks for the inspiration, Dawn. I finally did it!
It didn’t take long before I got to run down a gloriously long hill with just the right grade not far from home. It was the perfect way to finish up.
According to gmap pedometer I covered 7.2ish km and according to the clock on my phone, I took about 42 minutes, not including a 13 minute chat at the running store. Yeah, I don’t own a GPS. I don’t even run with my watch half the time. It’s just good to be out there.
All Downhill From Here 