Recovery run. 8:30 am, 42°F, 53% humidity, wind 9 NW. My body was pretty broken down after 15 miles in the wrong shoes yesterday. The big toe on my right foot was complaining the loudest. Perhaps that's why when my alarm went off at 4:30 this morning, and then again at 4:39, and then again at 4:48, I reset it for 6:15 and went back to sleep. I got up at 6:15 and drove Thing 2 to seminary, and then went back home, reset my alarm for 7:15 and went back to bed. Then I got up and drove Thing 1 to school and got breakfast for Thing 4 and got her off to school. (Notice that I didn't have to do anything for Thing 3. Actually I had to wake him up before I left for seminary, but that was the only thing.) Then I went for my run. My toe was sufficiently calm by then. And my toe made it through the run. I saw Michelle during my run. She was on her way to go visiting teaching at Carly's house. So I stopped in and said hello to them after my run since Carly lives just a few houses down the street from me.
Normally I would do a couple of miles in VFFs today, but I've been having just a little teeny tiny bit of heel pain some mornings recently, and so I've decided to back off of the VFFs until after the Newport Marathon. I've still got to go to work today. And it's my husband's birthday and I'm not entirely prepared. We skipped the birthday breakfast this morning because he leaves for work at about 5:15 and everyone else was in bed at that point today, including me. AP: 9:42. Splits: 10:17, 9:43, 9:37, 9:36, 9:32, 9:30, 0.11 @ 9:16. Looks like it turned into a very gradual accidental progression run.
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