Uff da!

This morning was quite a jump even with the four miles on my shoes from Monday, today's five miles were a task.  A happy one to complete, yes, but something that is a leap up from the two miles that I was running last week a few times to provide myself with a foundation for my 16 week training plan.

Five miles in 51:28.  That would be my personal best according to my iPod.  I am not completely confident in the calibration of my sensor though.  It might be off a tenth of a mile on this five mile run but it is close enough. 

But back to that foundation.  If you want to build you need a solid beginning point.  I am not sure that I completely have that right now.  A few two mile runs in the last couple weeks is certainly enough.  Prior to that my running stopped at the beginning of November because of the tendinitis.  Can that running still provide me with the proper foundation to build up on? 

The answer is probably not.  And with that I am taking a risk, one that I need to take to be successful.