I did my long run on Sunday, and I was really tired on Monday. Tuesday I still felt various pains, but tonight's run, the first since Sunday, went fine. Tired legs though. I didn't bring a watch -- more like a recovery run.
Today I ran twice at Whole Foods, once the golf course. 2 hours and 27 seconds. 11.2 minutes/mile. That was faster than last week's 9 mile run; I think because it was colder today. I felt great, and I realized after doing the 2nd Whole Foods track that I was in good shape. Today it was around 50 degrees, it was in the low 70s last week.
The weather was gorgeous for February with 72 degrees and nice sun. The first time this year that I brought water bottles.
I can feel that I'm pushing myself; it wasn't that the last mile was particularly hard, like before, but I felt that I couldn't run much longer than this. So, it's good that I'm building up slowly towards the half marathon distance. I love running in this weather.
On Tuesday and today, Thursday, I ran the 4.5 mile track around Lake Johnson. It's such a great run!
Today was terribly cold, around 32 degrees and I felt cold all day -- until I went out the door and started running. I tried to break the ices of a small stream that I jumped over, by throwing rocks, but I couldn't -- it was pretty thick there (very shallow water). When I was a kid I used to like doing that.