4.37 miles- 9:52 pace
10am start- 66 degrees
I have to say, as frustrating as the past couple of weeks have been, it's been really lovely to sleep in on a Saturday again. Knowing that the miles won't justify a pre dawn wake up.... well, it has been really nice. It will be sad to lose that again, but for now I'm just enjoying it while I can.
This was a warm run, which was a reminder of why I chose to do a spring marathon initially. Training in the winter is just easier. Cold air is easier to adjust to then hot. Extremes are always more challenging, but I have chosen to live someplace where extreme cold is rare- extreme heat is very common though. So winter training is much easier on the system.
I know I had a lot of deep expansive thoughts during this run- things I knew I wanted to include on this blog, but I didn't get a chance to get it down right away, and now it's gone forever. If I'm really lucky it'll come back when I go back out and hit the road again. It felt really good to approach the old daily mileage point- felt really good.
It was my first run of double days- back to back runs. It went well- the calves are still holding strong. Of course, now that the primary muscles have adjusted to the change, the secondary are taking their chance to object a bit as well. I also rediscovered the blistering of a new method. When I first started running significant miles, I blistered like a M-F-er, and now its happening again. I should have known this was coming, but honestly I totally forgot. Thank god I don't have anyone looking at my feet for anything- 'cause they are NOT cute right now. Fairly shredded actually. a little tape on the next run and some time to adjust and I'll be all good. My feet will never be sexy (although I would argue NO feet are sexy) though.
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