trail 1:06:30 [3]
A very good outing. I kind of shut down at around 45 minutes - the rest of the time was hiking up some of the trails, jogging a bit of the road by the horse stables and walking the rest of the way home. What made it good though was that for those 45 minutes my knees felt pretty good and I was able to jog up a lot of the big hills. Went down to the covered bridge, up the old hill-repeat hill, back behind the Indian, across Rex and up on the top of the three trails on that hillside but looping back on the middle trail to Rex, onto Forbidden Drive towards Valley Green, but doubling back up the trail right before Wise's Mill and taking that over to the top of my reentrant and then by the stables and home. So lots of hills in that route and only walked in a few places through the Drive part.
I also took a map of Mendon Ponds along with me and tried to do some map reading while running. It was really, really tough to read what was up and what was down on that map but it was good for me to try to focus on a map. It certainly made the run go by a lot faster. I couldn't do much reading on some of the trails where the recent storms have washed a lot of the dirt away so that the trails are mostly rocks and roots, but I did try to read on the better parts and would occasionally stop and absorb as much as I could and then try to visualize what I had just looked at.
strength & stretching 10:00 [0]
Did the PT stretches afterwards. I really feel like they're making a difference.