Friday 10K

COVID-19, “ The Rona Era”

So many feelings and motivations for Friday. Today at 4 a.m. there is a run this morning to finish Eliza Fletcher’s run. She was a woman who was kidnapped and killed while running at 4 in the morning. The kidnapping captured media attention. And discussions started about “ why was she running at time time in the morning”, to people criticizing her about clothing choices while running. Just a lot of craziness. Nothing about the man that kidnapped and murdered this woman.

Alot of attention has been on women running and safety. What is missing from the conversation is the intersectional experiences of women of color who run. Unfortunately there are native/indigenous women runners, Asian-American female runners that have been assaulted and killed while out on their runs. Media attention and awareness has been invisible and even silent.

The murder of Eliza was senseless and so sad. Not to take anything away from that.

This morning instead of waking up at 4 a.m. to run. I woke up at my usual 5 a.m. to run. Today, for those women who couldn’t just run I decided to push myself and run a 10k. This was my longest run post surgery.

I strapped on the headlight. Did 10 mins of yoga and stretching and headed out the door.

I appreciate the 58 degrees of coolness this morning. Felt like fall but it’s still summer. At least for 2 more weeks.

I ran by the waterfront and crossed the Chelsea Bridge over into Chelsea, did my Chelsea loop. Crossed another bridge back to East Boston and then ran through Brenman Park and on the Greenway for 6.10 miles.

I had to stop a couple of time and walk. The bra that I had on did not work with my new girls( which is good to know).

I’m glad I did the run. Now I have a baseline to work with.

6.10 miles = 10:58 min/mile - 1hr 6mins.

Working on building back up