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Started slow and sped up as time went on.  First mile was 10:45 and forth mile was 8:34.  I'm not sure about the last partial.  I mishandled my GPS and lost the run.  The only reason I know this much is because I ran with one contact lens and I used my bare eye to take a mental note of the lap times.  I think I'll do it that way more.  My glasses don't work well on wet days.

A little concern cropped up as I started to feel pain in the same foot towards the end of the run, this time closer to the toes, but in the same vicinity.  I'll see if it gets worse or better over time.

It was a choice between shoveling snow or running this morning.  We had heavy snow fall last night, but it mostly blew away by morning.  It definitely would have been useless trying to shovel away the little patches this morning.  Instead I ran.  GPS is not working, but I ran the same route as last time and I figure it was 4.65 miles.

GPS decided to work; I decided to get up at 4:05.  Therefore, I have a distance of 5.52 miles and a time of 52:41 for an average pace of 9:33/mile.  It's a long ways from where it used to be, but it is what it is.

 At least my frequency and distance are gradually increasing.

6.48 miles in under an hour 59:53.  That must be 6.5miles per hour.  Pace ranged from 10:39 for the first mile to 8:16 for the last partial with the fastest pace at 6:02 crossing 8th North before the light turned red.  Mile 5 was 7 seconds slower than mile 4.  Otherwise, the pace increased with each mile.  I'm not sure if that is effective training, but I like to do it that way.

Sluggish run this morning, but at least I did it.  55:53 was overall time for a 10:02 average pace.  Dressed a little too warm for 41 degrees with long sweats, gloves, and ski mask as I sweated off 3 pounds.

 I awoke without an alarm at 4:40 even after the switch to day-light savings time, so that pleased me.  I hate losing an hour, but I think I'm officially on the new schedule now.

Planned to run 6.5 in the rain.  But I forgot the route distance and there was no rain.  It was a cool, cloudy 36 degrees.  Shorts, long sleeves, and gloves was about the right warmth, but my fingers were still frozen at the end.  Saw five deer that just stared at me as I ran by.  I stared right back.  On Monday, I saw a pack of about 10.

Started feeling a little foot pain at the end.  I'll need to be careful not to overdo it.  I'm leaning away from running UVM now.  End of summer will be much more successful for me.  It's too little too late on the training and I don't think my body can do a fast ramp up.

Hill training route.  Looked at my pace during steepest part and it registered 15.35 per mile and I was working hard.  I wonder if the GPS tracks vertical as well as horizontal distance.   If not then even downhill is going to register slower than actual rate.  Considering that it registers elevation, the vertical factor must be considered.

Whatever the case, the run took 50:54 or 10:03 per mile.

I tried it.  I kept my heart rate between 127 and 132.  I could talk and I could even sing (if you call what I do singing).  I found out that my wife usually walks at the same rate that I jogged.  I felt like I could have continued all day.

Slept too long, ran a little less, but I ran hard.  HR was in the 160's with a max of 170.  The run took 43:20 for an average pace of 9:15 per mile.  Not very satisfactory for trying so hard, but it is what it is.  Hopefully, I can start to get in better shape soon.

This was going to be a long, low heart rate day, but I didn't have the heart when I took off really slowly and my heart rate monitor reported 175bpm.  I kept looking at it and I was well into the second mile before it got down into the 140's.  At that point, I had no intereset in slowing down any further.  I guess that makes today's run a "garbage" run, but at least I did it.  Overall, pace was 10:16/mile or 1:45:48 for 10.16 miles.  My speed mostly improved with each mile, but even the last fraction and the fastest rate was 9:12/mile.  Foot pain started coming back.  Hopefully, I didn't overdo it.

3 miles at near 130bpm and the rest running hard, closer to 9 min/mile.  Heart rate got up to 163bpm at the end.  Slow miles were really slow at about 13 min/mile.

Low heart rate all the way, average of 128bpm, maximum 136bpm.  Average speed (or rather average slow) was 13:05/minute.  Temperature was 10 degrees warmer than yesterday, which made for a very nice run.  For some reason, I come back frozen when it is below freezing and refreshed when it is 40 degrees.  One good thing about the slow runs is how good I feel after.  I don't feel beat up at all.  The bad thing is how early I have to get up for a short distance.