I haven’t been running since I hurt my achilles way back in November of 2013. I haven’t really even been walking. I have been on my bike once or twice, but I’ve mostly been sitting around making up excuses to stay sitting around.

That all changed this week when I finally stopped giving in to the excuses and walked the whole 2 miles from work back home. I had Charmaine drop me off in the morning so I wouldn’t have any way home other than walking. It was still about 85 degrees outside when I started walking, but there was a nice breeze and a lot of shade. If I hadn’t had to wait for two lights right at the end, I would have averaged under 15:00/mile… and that was carrying my computer, noise canceling headphones, and a few books in my backpack.

Charmaine says we may ride our bikes to Santa Cruz tomorrow. That would be about 60 miles round trip. I’m not sure I’m up for that, but we’ll see what happens.

This is where I would normally link to my activity on Runkeeper, but they are being dicks these days and don’t show activities to non-members, so I no longer link to them. In fact, maybe it’s time to switch back to Strava for tracking my runs. Actually, I’m a little pissed at Strava right now too. The latest update to their Android app requires you allow the app to read your phone number and all the calls you make. I refuse to allow that. I’m not sure what the solution is yet. I’ll probably end up with a GPS watch or something and just upload the raw data to something.