A clydesdale no more!

Everything was bothering me this morning.  Not sure what the deal was.  It seems like anything that could go wrong did this morning.  I almost got hit by a couple of cars, I tripped in a pothole, I was nauseous, I was tired, my legs hurt.  Other than that it was a pretty good run. As I was running by McDonalds, a truck had to slow down and wait for me.  As I passed the driveway he squealed his tires when he pulled in.  I guess he had to let me know how inconvenient it was for him to wait 2 seconds to get his egg mcmuffin.

The roads and sidewalk were very slippery.  I kept the pace easy so that I could maintain my footing.  I'm so ready for spring.

I did a shortened version of my weekly hill run.  I felt fine going up but coming back down my knees weren't cooperating  so my pace wasn't as quick as I would have liked.  The moonset (is that what it is called?) looked pretty cool this morning.

My legs are pretty sore from yesterday's hilly run.  I can't decide if this is a good or bad thing.  It's either an indication that I worked them pretty hard yesterday or that my fitness has dropped off so much that they can't handle the workload anymore.  Either way, I wanted to treat today's run as a recovery so I kept the pace slow and easy.  Ended up running a very ugly, industrial route which gave the run a very negative feel.

Legs are more sore than they should be.  Kept the pace slow again just to let them recover.  At the end of the run I went to stop my watch and realized that I forgot to start it.  I hate it when I do that.

Started out with 4 miles before the club run (averaged 7:20/mile).  Saw Kathie on the way out and tried to catch her on the way back.  She was moving too quick and I couldn't catch up to her.  Since Trevor wasn't there today and Jim's long runs are on Sunday and likes to take it easy on Saturday I thought that I could slack off a little today.  Jim wanted to push the pace a little so we ran the first 4 miles at 6:45-6:55/mile.  We backed off the last 2 miles and ran with a few people from the group the rest of the way (around 7:30/mil).  I felt pretty good during the run but it was a bit of work to maintain the pace.  Jim has been working really hard for a sub 3 attempt at Boston and he is in incredible shape right now.  These are the only times that I regret not keeping my training at a high level.  It is hard when you are running with somebody who doesn't seem to be working at all and you are doing all that you can to keep up.