Week 1 of my return to fitness started to catch up to me today. It's been a few months since I've run 5 days in a row . . . and I could definitely feel it. It was also my longest run in a couple of months.
Devra met me at my house. We ran out 4800 S and jumped on the river trail. Then, we ran in to a nice head wind for three miles. At Winchester, we left the trail and climbed the ginormous hill to 1300 West. I felt like I was crawling at this point. On 1300 West we caught a tail wind, and were able to pick up the pace. We finished with another uphill-into-the-wind through my neighborhood. Our overall pace was 7:15 per mile, with a finishing time of 1:05:10. I now have a benchmark with which to measure my fitness . . . at least on that run. I enjoyed the spring-like weather, and wished I had been wearing shorts. | 