Begin week three

Four laps at the park tonight, so 2.67 miles in 37:35, for about a 14-minute-mile pace. I managed to do the whole thing without my left foot going numb, which is the good news. The bad news - not that bad, but still - is that I don't know exactly why it didn't. The reason for that is that I took two ideas suggested on Saturday and implemented both of them. One, suggested by the coach, was using the massage ball on the bottom of my foot to "roll out the tendons," which I did over the weekend. The other, suggested by the other member of my pace group, was adding a minute to my running interval - so I did 4:2 instead of 4:1, running 25:35 of my total time and walking the remaining 12 minutes. Walking has tended to alleviate the numbness when it's come up, and the extra minute did suffice to stave it off the entire time - or, of course, maybe it was the tendon stuff. I think I'll try doing 4:1 again on Wednesday while still using the massage ball tonight and tomorrow and seeing what the results are.