Hills and Clouds

While thinking about running a marathon in November and putting together my training plan, I believe I'm going to do the run/walk method in order to try avoid the calf cramps that I had so bad last time I tried to run a road race. The Bataan race certainly counts, but it wasn't one where I was trying to hit a certain time goal. So I discovered how to to program my Garmin for run/walk cadences, and tried it out on today's 6-miler, which was a hill run. Worked like a charm - 9 minutes running, and 1 minute walking. I'll be trying it on longer runs now that I know it works as advertised. I might also fiddle with the times, but I'm starting with that for now and will adjust as needed.

Beyond that it was a good run. Ran the hills on Stonebridge, and walked at the appropriate times. Except for the last one, but I walked a bit up the big hill on Virginia and then skipped the last time the GPS beeped at me. I can be flexible when the opportunity arises.