faster with age

     8 miles today. It was snowing with a steady wind the whole time. I felt low on energy during this run which I didn't expect after not running the last 2 days. I must have been worn out from our short vacation and lack of sleep the past 2 nights. 8:42 AP.

     I had better energy today. I went 10 miles total with the first 2 miles mostly on snow at around 8:22 pace. The next 6 miles I averaged around 7:35 pace. The 9th mile I ran in 6:29 and slowed back to 7:25 pace for the next 1/2 then 6:19 pace for the last 1/2 mile. Overall pace for 10 was 7:34.

     During my run on Wednesday I got a sudden pain in my ankle. It was mostly gone after 1/2 minute and I finished the run. It was a bit sore the rest of the day and pretty sore on Thursday so I skipped the run. It was a little sore this morning but seemed a little less noticeable the more I was on it so I decided to try running. Once I started the pain seemed to mostly disappear. I was running on snow and there was a lot of snow falling. I kept the pace real easy. 9:27 AP.

     I was planning on doing a 20 miler today but we have gotten a ton of new snow and none of the roads were cleared yet. I've also been having a few little aches and pains this week. I decided a long run with poor footing wouldn't be a good idea today so I scrapped it and just went 8 miles and decided to do the long run on Monday.  Poor footing made the run slow. 9:08 AP