General aerobic run. 5:18 am, 28°F, 86% humidity, wind 2 SSE. Once again, I did dynamic stretching before the run, "pounding the ground" during the run, and static stretching after the run.
I had an easy recovery day yesterday and I have another easy recovery day tomorrow, so I decided to put a little bit more energy into my run today. I got a boost with that endeavor because about a couple of miles into my run, which is a kind of tough uphill part of the route, I saw another runner ahead of me and I decided to see if I could catch up with him by pushing the pace a little but not too much. I was almost up with him when we reached an intersection and he turned right while I went straight. I ran the same route that I ran on Monday. Monday was a tempo run with 4 fast miles in the middle, and today I ran a more even pace. It turns out I actually ran the route 15 seconds faster overall today than I did on Monday. AP: 8:47. Splits: 9:22, 9:12, 8:35 (chasing the other runner), 8:54, 8:49, 8:42, 8:30, 8:37, 8:24, 0.15 @ 8:38. My oldest son finally got his driver's license yesterday. This is supposed to help me get to bed earlier because now he can drive himself to and from places that I used to have to drop him off at and pick him up from. For example, last night he worked from 6 to 10 and so I should have been able to go to bed early since I didn't have to pick him up at 10:00. However, I was worried about him out with the car on his own for the first time so I stayed up and waited for him to get home. And he got home later than I expected him to because he gave a coworker a ride home. So once again, not enough sleep for me. There's some kind of restriction about new drivers having passengers, but I think it doesn't apply to him because he's 18. The restriction is aimed at 16 year olds.
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