A Balance, Redefined

I’m definitely feeling tired now. But I took an “easier” day. I woke up at 4:55am with the intent of doing two runs today. However, with the snow I just ended up shoveling and heading into work. I had a solid morning of work from 5:45am until noon. Then I took a quick lunch and went back to work until about 3pm. Then I actually called my day early and went for my run and headed home. It’s strange that I work a 9 hr day and felt like I was slacking going home early… I got home in plenty of time to shovel my drive a second time and get some good playtime with Kaitlyn. My run was fun. Even though I was tired, I decided to do some speedplay. I did two miles off two miles on. No particular goal for the on just think hard and let the legs do the rest. I’ll only give info on the hard miles. It was snowing the entire run but the surface was not slippery. I did the same run as yesterday up City Creek and back. The first on mile started right at the Firehouse. 5:23 descent 166 ft, 6:17 descent 86ft ascent 124 ft. The next two started at the turnaround back down City Creek. 5:59 descent 235 ft, 5:34 descent 242 ft. The final two started back at the Firehouse 6:06 descent 199 ft ascent 95 ft, 7:44 ascent 279 ft. If the elevation change was less than 50 ft I didn’t bother noting it. Overall, I good run considering how tired I’ve felt this week. I can’t believe it is only Wed. Good news is even though I got up earlier this morning I still got about 6.5 hrs of sleep last night. Avg. 6:54 HR 157.