Running Journal, Wednesday, 2011-01-12: "I'll Just Let Him Get His Exercise"

Running Journal, Wednesday, 2011-01-12
Resting heart rate: 58 bpm (60 second test, upon waking)

Body Mass Index (BMI): 22.5 (kilograms/(meters^2))
Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR): 1,827 calories
Weather: mostly clear; 0 km/h (0 m/h) winds; 85% humidity; 103 KPA (30.36 inches pressure)
Temp: 8 C (46 F)
Time: 7:30-8:15 p.m.

Terrain: flat; +/- 11 m (36 ft)
Goal Time: n/a

Comments: Heart rate a bit higher than normal when I woke, so took it easy this evening. Lots of people in attendance at the gym, tonight, so Dawn and I parked around the corner from the entrance. After I began running, Dawn headed toward the exterior corner of the gym, where she noticed a security guard intently watching me running off. She asked him, "What do you see?" The guard replied, "Saw some guy running off. I'll just let him get his exercise." To which she said, "My husband is going for a jog while I go for the gym; that might be him." I love it--the guard probably thought I was a thief attempting to bust into cars in the parking lot. Still sick; on a scale of 1 to 100, with 100 being perfectly healthy and 0 being dead, I feel about a 65. Congestion, so I talk funny, and feeling drained. This Saturday I run 14 miles. Attempted to keep my back straighter and seemed to succeed from feeling pain. The last time I ran 14 miles, about 6.5 months ago, I pulled my Achilles tendon after gulping down a Hammer Nutrition gel and running too fast and the way back. The last time I ran 14 miles, I also started just before 4:00 a.m. to beat the early-July summer heat. How far away those temperatures seem, now! No need to start at 4:00 a.m., this Saturday, to beat the heat. Projected low for Saturday morning is 4 C (39 F). Running out in the dark and back in the dawn light was exhilarating, though. Not sure whether I will run at the Parkway or in the local neighborhood. Will see how I feel. The skies were mostly clear, this evening, allowing clear visibility of the stars and the moon, which is approaching half-fullness. Near the end of the run, a cloud in the shape of a giant wing floated across the sky and passed in front of the moon, illuminating it in white. Other, alto-cumulus clouds, were also present, but farther away from the moon, and bathed in an orange light from the sodium-vapor lamps of the city.

Distance (running): ~6.44 km (~4.0 miles); http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4205867 ; ~580 calories burned
Weight (after run): 77.0 kg (169.76 lbs), ?% body fat
Any irregular feelings, aches, pains, heart rate, and so forth?: Sick, but no muscle aches

Foods eaten today: cup green tea with lemon juice x 2, oatmeal + raisins, garlic hummus + whole wheat pita, yaki onigiri x 3, egg-white salad sandwich on whole wheat bread, apple sauce cup, cherries,