Mileage: 13.25 miles
AM: 3.75 miles; PM 9.5 miles
I am feeling tired but good as I write this. After yesterday’s track session I was expecting to be a lot stiffer than I was, so my run to work was a pleasant surprise. In fact after the first mile I felt myself speeding up! Morning runs have started to become a joy again and not a chore. Since getting back from holiday I have found it difficult to get back into my morning runs often feeling sore, stiff and tired plodding up the road. If it wasn’t for the fact that I needed to run to work each morning then I might have been tempted to leave it on some mornings. Today, however, it was a lovely run up the road and I didn’t want to stop when I got to work. I just hope tomorrow I feel the same.
This evening I ran to the Meadows and met Dan. We ran the 8 mile route from there that I had ran on Monday after work. My Garmin is still searching for its missing satellite so I was once again dependent on Dan for an accurate measure as well as an idea of pace. We ran quite hard, but fairly consistently. It was a nice bright evening, but the strong breeze seemed to hit us head on no matter which way we turned. Our pace was good too and we comfortably did our 8 miles at an average pace of less than 7 minutes per mile. It was fast, but we managed to chat about our usual rubbish along the way. My right leg did feel a little uncomfortable at times, a little tight around the knee and the hamstring. I sometimes wish I had two left legs, as my left leg always feels as thought it could do a 100 mile a night and never seems to suffer.
We stopped at Ainsley Park for some core and strengthening work before running toward home. It was another good training day and I really am starting to feel good again. I am hopefully going to be running a 15k trail run in Moffat next Tuesday evening and I am looking forward to testing the hard work I have put in over the last 16 days.
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