[S]he Conquers Who Endures

I needed one last awesome threshold run before my 8k April 7, and I made sure I got it!!! I held off running to the evening to give my calves those few extra hours to recover (still) from Saturday. During the wu, I was first happy with how they felt, by the end of the warmup I was like oh no this ain't gonna be good cause my calves were feeling weak. I was targeting a 40:00 threshold at 7:55 min/mi pace. I started feeling pretty good around the 1.5 mile mark and thought seriously about increasing the pace, but held off. 30 mins is a lot of time left. Normally 40:00 threshold would be just under 5.85 miles. I decided once I hit mile 4 I'd increase my pace at mile 5. So, I dropped it to 7:49 min/mi pace, held that until mile 5.5, then dropped to 7:44 min/mi pace and decided to run LONGER to hit 6 miles. I felt like I could have gone longer, but didn't want to reveal my race legs until race day. :)

I'm so happy about this run. I hit this pace 2 weeks ago and it was HARD back then! It felt so much easier today even though my calves were only 80%. I am noticing virtually no more soreness in my hamstrings, which I've had since October. I didn't realize it was due to overstriding. Now that I'm correcting that, I'm excited to see the paces I'll hit with healthy hamstrings once my calves adapt!