25o, cold and clear - even sunny!
Wow...today's run was HARD! Not the course...I purposefully made it flat at first then added some hills into the second half, but I was not feeling it today. I kept hitting snooze on the alarm clock since I knew it was going to be cold and was hoping another 10 minutes would make a difference, and I was just plain tired after this week! I felt like Cameron in Ferris Bueller's Day Off where he's debating whether to get up and go out with Ferris. This was me, just with a lot less hair: I finally got up and out the door because I knew I'd regret it if I didn't go. I'm glad I went, but it wasn't pretty.
Turns out that the river trail still had packed snow/ice on it until I got to about mile 2.5. No big deal, it just made for a bumpy surface. The rest of the run was OK. My achilles wasn't much of a bother, but I began to get some pain in my right knee (probably Runner's Knee), and right "behind" the outside of my ankle bone toward the achilles (who knows what, but probably just old age)...oh boy, here we go again! I kept it slow to keep the pain in check and it felt like it was taking forever to run the 8 miles. The 10:00 pace wasn't bad for my long runs, but this time I felt like I was running so much slower! The splits you've all been waiting for:
Mile Splits: 10:19, 9:49, 10:18, 10:22, 10:09, 9:49, 12:13 (walked for a minute or so here), 10:59 (1.17mi - 9:24 pace) 10:16 Avg Pace
Last week's runs were awesome, especially Thursday's, so having this "bad" run today was tough. We've got some really nice days coming up this week, weather wise, so I'm looking forward to keeping the schedule and enjoying the outside runs! I'm gonna keep on keepin' on! Peace out!
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