January 26, 2010
Run: Easy 7M (7.07 mi @ 08:37)
First run after being neutered. It is good to be back! Did you miss me?
I had Kim do a scrotum check on me last night for a 2nd opinion. All looks well. No soreness or swelling. I shredded my prescription for Vicodin. Never needed it. Never even took a Tylenol. So I woke up today knowing that I would run. Waited till the afternoon and went out for a leisurely run around the place. Was going to stay in the neighborhood, but that turned into a spin around the county roads then back through the neighborhood. All was well but admittedly I would stop every couple miles and check my junk. I was on edge like all of a sudden I would have Elephantiasis or something.
So 3 full days off. Will just do three 2-fers in the coming weeks and it will be a zero sum outing.
I have 2 more responsibilities with the surgery. First, I was instructed to drain the tube 12 times. Oh, darn! Second, do the follow-up to check for swimmers. That should be good. But the other thing I am sort of dreading is that “drain #1”. What will that feel like? Some have pain after this surgery from then on. I hope that isn’t the case.
Been seriously counting my calories over days now. Getting into the swing of it. Eat something and I log it online. Restaurants are pretty easy. Stuff with labels is easy. I even dissected Kim’s recipe the other night, measured my portion, and logged that. The cool part is that running gives you a great deal more calories per day to play with. If you don’t exercise, you are seriously in a box with how much you can eat. I will report in soon on this once I get a couple weeks down so I can see trends.
I went 7.07 miles with an elevation gain of 249 feet in 01:00:58, which is an average pace of 08:37. View my GPS data on Garmin Connect.
