Recovery run + core conditioning exercises. 10:30 am, 40°F, 36% humidity, wind 3 SSW. It turns out that I am unable to get up and run early in the morning if I take liquid Nyquil the night before. That has been my situation the last two mornings. Not only was I in a drug induced stupor this morning, but I had reset my alarm for 6:20 when I went back to bed yesterday and I forgot to change it to 4:20, so my alarm didn't go off. My husband's alarm went off at 4:30, but I didn't hear it and didn't hear him get up and didn't notice anything at all until I woke up at 5:12. At that point there was time to run before seminary, so I went back to sleep until about 6:10. I'm working from home again today and I managed to send Thing 4 to school, but I kept Thing 3 home because he was coughing up a lung this morning. But he's old enough for me to leave him in the house alone, so I was able to go out for my run when I got to a good stopping place with my work. I took little tiny steps today to keep my pace slow while focusing on the falling forward proprioceptive cue (I love the word "proprioceptive"). But I was tired from yesterday's run, so it wasn't too hard to do. I ran a four mile loop and then came in the house and blew my nose and changed into my VFFs and then went out for another 1.12 miles. I did stretching and core conditioning after that. Incidentally, my target pace range for recovery runs is 10:00 to 10:30.
AP: 10:14. Splits: 10:20, 10:02, 10:05, 10:25, 10:16.
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