Yes, I’ve fallen behind here a bit. I’ve not been slacking off! Honest!
Saturday, I ran 3ish miles at Memorial Park, and it was good, a bit faster than I’m use to, but was running with someone who is much faster than me so her speeding me up was a good thing… But it was yet to be determined how good since I was racing on Sunday…
Then Sunday, up early for a donut ride with some more friends. The biking was about 10.5 miles and I decided shortly after starting that it was probably not a good idea to have taken my single speed out for this bike, as I needed to keep quasi fresh legs for the run I was doing later in the afternoon! Yikes! Legs were pretty tired after this.
2pm was the start time of the Jingle Bell Run. 5 miles. 2 miles more than I have run in over a year. I was running with a couple of friends and they kind of pushed me a bit. And it was also a bit hilly, and I like the hills. I naturally speed up on hills for some reason, and it’s good. We were going through at a pretty good pace, slowly speeding up as the race went on. At about mile 4.25 or so, my brain told me I was done. I listened… Until I saw how strong my friends were going still. And so I unlistened to my brain, and started running again. I’m glad I did, I started to feel not too bad, still in lots of pain since I hadn’t run that far in a loooong time. But yeah. It was good. And ended up with a 9:02 min/mile pace average for the 5 miles! Yay! That’s faster than I normally run my 3 miles (about 9:15-9:30.)
Sunday night I paid for it, and Monday as well. I was in all kinds of pain from the weekends activity! But a hot bath Sunday and again Monday helped things out, and I was feeling good on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, I went for a walk/run with another friend at Memorial Park and it was good, fun, just what I needed to get my legs moving again.
So yeah, I’ve not been slacking off on the working out, just on the writing!
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