Not the week I had planned or written in my running log but sometimes you have to step back and look at the bigger picture to appreciate the greater good.........
Mon Mar 4th Off the back of Sundays long run I just needed an easy/recovery/shake out 6 miler to get the week started
I'll spare you the play by play call on a very frustrating morning in the office but suffice to say I was in a spit nails, walk thro walls, shit bullets frame of mind gone 2pm when I eventually got out to run so when I discovered early on the Garmin hadn't restarted after a traffic light stop up JFK Blvd I said feck it this would be an untimed run
To be fair it didn't need to be timed I'm just so used to timing my runs but given I was looking to shake the crap out of my legs from Sundays long run this really didn't require time, speed. pace just the miles
One area of concern as I mentioned in last weeks blog I'd racked up 451 miles on my running shoes so this was the maiden run in the new pair, I'm hoping they just need to mold to the shape of my foot as my big toe on my right foot felt like it was jamming into the toe box on the run to the point I had to double check Amazon had sent the right size....they had after a little futzing w/ the laces it felt a lot better
Tue Mar 5th Wasn't sure I'd get this one in as the weather was playing havoc, pissing down pouring rain most of the morning and early lunchtime however by 2pm it had eased up/ stopped and ever the Boy Scout I'd come prepared w/ a running rain jacket and baseball cap so off I splashed up JFK Blvd to the Schuylkill River Trail
A modest 52.30.5 off 8.44 mile pace w/ splits of:8.18-9.04-9.07-8.59-9.02-7.58 out in 26.31 back in 25.59 but the proverbial cheque was in the mail re tired legs, the past few week I've logged some major mileage on a weekly basis partly to get #154 miles for February, maybe the proverbial Chickens had come home to roost..........
Thur Mar 7th Having ridden my luck twice in the last few weeks w/ getting out to run when rain had threatened to derail me yesterday the Weather Gods said they were claiming that one and it pissed out of the heavens, given my legs were feeling it a little Monday & Tuesday I was only to happy to concede defeat but I was back at it at 2pm today
48.22.7 off 8.04 mile pace I could feel the benefit of a rest day in my legs and my pace, splits backed that up:8.22-8.43-8.38-7.54-8.25-6.18 out in 25.44 back in 22.38
Given this was scheduled as my last regular lunchtime run for the foreseeable future w/ the clocks going forward on Sunday and the resumption of evening/longer runs it was nice to sign off w/ a respectable time and JFK Blvd will be spared yours truly hammering up and down said Boulevard between 2pm-3pm on weekdays to and from the Schuylkill River Trail
I didn't plan on Thursday being my last run for the week Saturday was going to be my final 16 miler and Sunday would be an easy/recovery/shake out 6 miler to round up to another 5 day/40 mile week.....however...... when I didn't exactly leap out of bed Saturday morning and proceeded to roll over and fall back asleep till 10am which for me is almost unheard of I knew I was tired and while sometime you have to run on tired legs you also have to listen to what your body is telling you and mine was telling me it needed rest
It's never a bad thing to throw in the occasional low mileage week sometimes it's planned like the third weekend of January we go hit w/ snow and it's been full tilt the last 6 weeks, while the heart desired mileage the legs and body desired rest so I took the weekend off to recharge the batteries we'll go again Monday evening after work which after 4 months of lunchtime running will be a shock to the system but will also help shake things up a little
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