My overarching reason for running this morning was to relief the muscle pain created by washing the cars & gardening yesterday. My shoulder particularly had reminded me that I had overdone it every time I turned over in bed last night!
A run seemed like the best way to loosen up.
I dialled in 7mph on the machine and after each five minutes I took a couple of sips of water and increased the speed by 0.1 mph. There was an ongoing conversation in my head about whether to run 5 miles or for an hour.
I settled on 45 minutes, after which time I had run 5.5 miles, an average of 7.3 mph.
My shoulder is still painful, but the muscles are a lot looser so it’s not grabbing my attention so much. More gardening required methinks… just not today!