I was at my parents' house today. My son, who doesn't know the meaning of sleeping in, was bugging me. Nobody else was half awake like I was. So, eventually, I got up and started getting ready for a run. Then others began waking. My daughter seemed willing to get out and about, so I took her in the stroller and headed out for a run.
My parents' neighborhood is very hilly, so I thought I'd head down one of the older neighborhoods to a park creatively named "Central Park". I had google-mapped the park and saw that there were several paths through the park. I should have remembered from my childhood that those paths were on the side of a hill and using them negated any benefit of not running in my parents' neighborhood! Actually, they did have one positive. They had shade. Since I got out of the house later than usual, the shade was very welcome. It was a warm morning and humid. Also, very sunny.
My run was only 5 minutes warmup and 20 minutes running. But, I figure I had the added difficulty of pushing an extra 30-40 lbs and that up steep hills, so it was strenuous enough. The older sidewalks were uneven and bumpy. It worked ok, but made it a bit harder to push the stroller. I use a regular stroller with rather small wheels, not a jogging stroller with larger wheels. My daughter enjoyed the ride, though.
One thing that annoys me sometimes on my runs is that my heart rate monitor loses my heartbeat. Then I end up fiddling around with the strap rather than keeping good running form. I have the Polar T31 coded strap. Sometimes it works perfectly... sometimes it barely registers a heart beat at all. I'm sure it's because it sometimes doesn't get a good contact, but I do the same things each time to supposedly ensure good contact. I don't get it. It's doubly frustrating because I feel like I'm not getting credit for my hard work. When I'm sweating buckets, huffing and puffing, and the HRM is reading 78 bpm, it makes me mad!
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