I went on an easy, uneventful evening run. I ventured into atypical territory, and ran somewhat farther than the 40-45 minutes I had planned. I felt generally good - with a slight niggle in my right heel, probably related to plantar fascia action. I will be good about using Wyatt's healing boot of power during the night for the near future. I kept to 4/4 breathing for essentially all the run.
I listened to
Pacific Crucible - a book I have read before, but an interesting history of a tumultuous period. I first read about the pacific theater of World War II when I was young - some reading of the carrier war at age 8. At the time, I had only the vaguest grasp of what was involved; certainly my comprehension of death and the horrors of war was undeveloped. It was some time before I understood sequences of battles, tactics, execution, and strategy. Theater-wide strategy is the most challenging problem, and it is too easy to frown upon poor tactics in hindsight. Games like Starcraft are excellent ways of posing the same problems in a more accessible way.
I would really like to run the Highlander, but the volume of training I have put in over the past few months isn't enough to justify it. There are also advantages to running the Lowlander - it is a distance that I run at long competitions but seldom practice. Still, it's disappointing to not go the distance.
Ghettotrack.