We walked around the San Diego Library and then several miles through Seaport Village and then out along the San Diego Bay past the convention center and a few of the big hotels with Charmaine’s parents, who are visiting from out of town. I didn’t plan well and brought a “change of clothes” but not a change of shoes. My change of clothes included shorts, but not flip-flops. I was stuck wearing my loafers. I went without my dress socks, so I wouldn’t completely embarrass everyone, though I’m not sure how successful I was. Anyway, that’s not the right set of equipment for walking miles and miles. I wound up with several good blisters on my feet. Ouch.

But that didn’t stop me from getting out there today. I haven’t had anything close to a blister in my running shoes in what seems like forever. Even when I’ve gone 10+ miles, my feet have been perfectly fine afterwards. So I figured I would be fine running on my blisters. I was right. I don’t think they bothered me too much. I may have compensated and changed my form a bit, but mostly I didn’t think about them at all.

It was a nice temperature for running today. It was foggy last night and most of the morning, so it was still fairly cool when I headed out. I still found myself struggling though. I want to blame my lack of energy on the walking we did yesterday, but I’m not really sure what my problem was. My left ankle was really tight and at one point I came to a complete stop at a lamp post and stretched it out. I felt so much better after that, and I was able to actually get a few miles of running done.

Of course, I still died at the end and walked up the big hill. It’s really disappointing that I can’t stay running for my whole run anymore. I seem to remember that I could keep it together back in the day. Maybe I never did. I don’t think I’ll be looking it up to check… I’d rather just figure it out right now and run all the way back home. At some point I need to stop being happy with just finishing the distance and actually start to improve. Maybe Wednesday?