Return to the Oval

Today:
Purpose: injury prevention
Distance:  20 laps in lane 5 plus cool down = 10.1 km
Time:  51' 05"
Rate:  5' 03" per km
Weather:  sunny, temp 26 degrees, humidity 40%, wind calm

Week:   10.1 km,  Feb:   257.25 km,  Year:  592.7 km

After a week of no running, it was going to be a tough ask to run anywhere, let alone on trails or for any long distance.
I chose not to join others this morning at the Cotter due to the chance of the stress tenderness in my leg giving way on Bullocks Paddock Road, a long way from nowhere.
I instead decided to run on the soft grass at Calwell oval in the afternoon when there would be some warmth in the air & hopefully no one else about. A longer stay in bed this morning was nice.
Lane 5 was Ok, nice and soft with a little detour into lane 6 where the area the burnt out car had damaged the grass, has been replaced.
This wasn't a tempo or cruise interval session, more an easy run on a flat surface. It was Ok, nothing special. Hopefully tomorrow on Stromlo grass track at the monthly handicap will be better.