Training Log Archive: TomN

Arrived in Exeter on Thursday afternoon, spent Friday acquiring furniture and stuff mostly from Goodwill. It's a one-bedroom apartment on the 3rd floor of an old Victorian in a very nice location half a block from the famous library, windows on 3 sides, but pretty tiny.

A light snowfall last night and early this morning, then sunny and quite mild in the afternoon, I put on shoes and dashed out. Ran past the house I lived in 50 years ago, then out along the iced-over river and back. I had discovered the first night that the apartment had housed cats, and that's a real problem. I travel with an inhaler, which got me through the night, and with the help of some over-the-counter stuff the asthma seems to be under control, and didn't bother me at all at jogging pace.

Drumm Ave loop. Temp. in mid-50s at 10 a.m., and it sure felt fine to run. I stretched it out on the gradual downhills, increasing stride and turnover. Again, good feelings.

Around the Goddard perimeter road. Lovely day, somewhere in the high 40s at noon when I ran, on the way to 60 later this afternoon.