Running back in Boston

I arrived back in Boston late last night - the plane was delayed such that I missed the last train and ending walking from the Airport MBTA station to Maverick and then picked up a taxi from there. Today was thankfully a day off - and after some good house cleaning in the earlier part of the day I went out for a run at 3:30 pm. The sun was still up - the temperature was about 42 and it was quite windy - I had a fairly strong headwind running toward the Mass. Ave. bridge. My feet was quite sore starting out - the shins were pretty raw - I almost decided on just hitting the gym but decided to give it a mile at which point I could divert. I started quite slowly and gently. The heel ball of both feet hurt despite having stretched quite copiously so I had to keep the speed down up to about the 2 mile mark - at which point I was able to up the pace. I hit the bridge at about 26:00 and change - coming back I picked up the pace a good bit, but at about mile 4 the left foot heel hurt again so I backed off the pace and concentrated on relaxing - starting with hands, arms, shoulders, upper back, torso, thighs, knees, calves and then feet. That really helped and the pain subsided. I still had to keep the pace down though the legs and lungs were up for an aggressive run. I ended up getting a time of 50:49 - a 6.5 mile run. Man, it sure was good to be back in Boston - I seriously missed this run!