Welcome to the April 2022 monthly summary.  Here is the link to the March 2022 summary in which people ran, cycled, walked, racewalked and swam during the winds and weather of late winter and the coming spring.

Here in the upper right of the map the great greening of spring is underway as the high sun and longer days chase the frost out of the ground. Runs are a tour of spring activity...snowblowers idling being run out of gas in prep for storage, brown Christmas trees pulled from out back to the roadside to join piles of winter brush cleanup waiting to be hauled to the dump, covers coming off boats in anticipation of getting out to the moorings before Memorial Day...by late April the magnolia trees are hinting at their stunning show to come in May as buds start opening into white, pink & yellow bursts against the deep green of the background while at ground level daffodils emerge along fence posts as the nightly temps stay just enough above freezing to not kill them off.

Apparently down in Massachusetts they had a little event mid-April as bunch of people didn't realize they can just take the 'T' from Hopkinton to downtown and decided to run it...

Time to account for your masterly run, cycled, swum, walked, strolled or skipped April miles!

Thanks milktruck.

April running: 200.5 miles

I thought about stopping at 199 miles for the prime, but I really like crossing that 200 mile for the month threshold.

I also had 2 races in April:

Remember the Ten 5K - 23:51 2AG

Oklahoma City Memorial Half Marathon - 1:54:01 4AG

Paul

Thanks for your keen observations, Milktruck.

April:

35 running miles

12.9 fitness walking

Work got in the way until Tax Day and then DW wanted me to catch up with some of the honey-do list I'd been putting off.

41 miles.

Thank you Milktruck.

124 miles

Well, everyone wants to be like Steve

another 99 calculated FTHA miles for the two of us.

thanks, MT!

Great intro and poetic description of early Spring, MT!  Thank you!!!      We are about 3 weeks late on spring temps here in Indiana, which means the corn and soybeans are late getting planted and that triggers stress all around. 

I ran a non-prime 153 miles for the month, which I was encouraged about. 

I ran 4 races on two weekends.

Carmel Marathon, (April 9) 4:54:32, 6 of 10 M65-69.    Disappointing and it settled the matter that I best plan on taking the T from Hopkinton to Boston next time I'm in Massachusetts, as I won't be running a certain, well-known route there.     

Green Street Mile (April 29), 8:14, 3 of 7, M60-69.   Unusual race...straightaway mile on a long, straight street in Urbana, Illinois.   Ran as hard as I absolutely could and was breathless at the end, yet could not get under 8 minutes.    A hard dose of reality...but reality it is.

Illinois 5K  (April 29) 28:49, 7 of 34 M65-69.    One hour after one-mile race.   Ran comfortably and enjoyed wearing my Purdue shirt to finish at the 50 yard line of U of Illinois stadium. 

Illinois Half Marathon (April 30)  2:14:47 12 of 25 M65-69.   Very windy out on the prairie, with rain added on from mile 11 to finish.   My sense of pace and enjoyment was like a roller coaster during the event.   Afterwards, looked at my splits and they were dead even.   I had targeted a 2:15 and met it.   Instructive moment to not listen to the emotional variability of the moment. 

No races in May, but a 50 mile event looms large on June 4. 

Thanks!!

Joe

Thanks, Milktruck!

107 running miles for me in April. Another prime!

Still no races, though.