Ran about 5 with the dog and the other 8 or 9 by myself. GPS was measuring speed, but not distance, so I don't actually know. I also have a map, but no distance measurement. :P Based on speed and adding warmup/cooldown, it was somewhere north of 14 total. I wish Google Earth/Maps/something had an easy way to take my route and turn it into distance as a backup for when the GPS is being stupid. It did this once before, then worked great for a few weeks. Frustrating. Might be time to complain to Polar or dig in their forums.

Haven't ran in regular shoes in 2 weeks, this is my longest run in FiveFingers to date. My calves are not sore, but my left ankle is still giving me trouble, when I stretch it feels like it wants to adjust back into place but just won't (more stretching is in order). Last time I ran 12 in shoes, though, I hurt way more. Also, I seem to have come to a compromise with my right foot and re-learned a little about running with even pressure across my toes/forefoot, as my callous is NOT tender like usual and the skin between my first/second toe wasn't as irritated. All things I can take to running in shoes, when that time comes again (I assume it will, though I don't know when).

At the end of my run, I definitely felt like jogging on grass, which felt oh so good (never feels good in shoes, I don't know why... lack of connection between feet and brain with shoes inbetween?). I probably had 2-3 miles on concrete, somewhere around 1 on grass for cool-down, the remainder on asphalt. I can really feel the difference between the different materials. I'm sure I "knew" in shoes, too, I just didn't consciously notice it. Anyway, my feet didn't hurt as much as they did when I did 12 miles in the FiveFingers a few weeks ago, it was more of a muscle tiredness (especially glutes and hamstrings) that led to the grass jogging, and it was my cool-down, so it felt warranted.

So, I've got a 12k planned first week of May and will probably run a half marathon later that month (my normal long run right now is 12-14 and will be 16-18 by then), which I plan on doing in the FiveFingers unless something unexpected happens. As for Ironman... I am going to wait and see. I have 3.5 months to decide. I'm interested to see how it feels once I start doing long distance bricks.

Lots of shamrock runs today... though I don't know if there was one here. I had trouble getting up at a decent hour as it is thanks to the DST change so it's probably best I didn't race.