Moving my feet again

I did my first post-LA run on Saturday morning, to a "yoga for runners" class. I had every intention of taking it easy (for me), but I completely underestimated the distance from my place to the studio and had to really push to get there on time. It was a great class, and I'll make it my routine for Saturday mornings. That'll give me at least 6 miles, but really at least 8 since I'll do the 4 out & back along the lakefront path. I'm sure I'll be leaving the class and going for my long run Saturdays soon, after giving myself appropriate marathon recovery (and I'm only figuring that out).

On that subject, I'm limiting myself to easy 4-milers this week, even though I really want to do more. It has only been a week since I ran my first marathon! Regardless, the weather on Saturday was awesome, the path was populated with runners (I even heard someone say they had run LA last week!), and I was feeling good to be back out.

I'm going to try to put in this route image.....



Not bad (if I was able to post the image correctly)! By the way, if you use a Garmin GPS (i.e. Forerunner) I recommend checking out SportTracks - it's a great program, and for my purposes much better than Training Center. And, you can edit routes - removing spurious waypoints and such - which TC doesn't let you do. Having said that, ignore those directional indicators....at this zoom level they seem to get confused.

Anyway, the yoga class was really cool. I think I said somewhere that I took my first class from an instructor-friend out in LA, and immediately recognized this as a Good Thing. I've always been curious, honestly. Perhaps nervous about going, even (for stupid reasons, like "what if I'm the only guy"). Now that I've experienced a few, I'm so glad I'm doing it. Without fail I've felt better at the end of a session. If only my schedule and wallet would allow me to do more.

In unrelated news, I'm totally enthralled with this book called "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova. It's a fascinating historical fiction involving Vlad Tepes, the Count Dracula.