Upped the mileage a bit today because I want to see if my legs are truly recovered or not. Nope, not quite yet. Started feeling deadleg syndrome at 9 miles with no power in the legs very much at all. And the strange thing I have noticed about my runs lately is that when I stop for a few minutes to talk to someone, or go into Deseret industries to look for something I come back out with my legs feeling much stronger and fresher than when I started. Is this a circulation issue? Blood sugar coming back to normal? Or is it just a byproduct of a overtired body and a recent marathon? Some days when I get up I feel like I was rolled up tighter than a elastic band and hit by a truck. Only later in the day do I feel even marginally better. Soooo.. the plan is to keep with the slower miles for a while to see if this is merely overtraining or something else like age. I don't know really but I do know this I am definitely not ready mentally to retire with all the other burnout cases yet. I still want to race like a twenty something dang it. No.. scratch that. I want to eat one for breakfast in another race sometime. Just kidding :) Kind of..
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