[S]he Conquers Who Endures

30 mins on the elliptical flushing out my legs followed by a bit of stretching.

10 miles with a friend in Chicago. It was pretty hot and humid AP 9:15 min/mi.

I'm coming to the conclusion the Philadelphia Marathon is just causing me too much stress. I just want to get back to enjoying running right now. I'm not going to get discouraged by this pace. I am building back mileage, my legs are finally not hurting too bad - more just fatigue. Running is a gift and I am going to celebrate every day I can run and remove all the pressure of time goals. Why not go through the marathon training scedule at whatever pace works and just get that mileage back on my legs.

2 mile wu, then 4x7:30 threshold with 2:30 recoveries on treadmill, 1% incline. Paces were: 7:25, 7:20, 7:15, 7:10. Another confidence builder in the books. My legs were shaking on this one from muscle fatigue - different than my energy level fatigue in a good way! Note to self: 7:25 felt just as hard as 7:10. Cool down was weird. 8:41 pace felt too slow so I dropped to 8:31. That felt good for a while then felt too slow so I dropped to 8:25 min/mi. I'm not sure what that was all about, but the too slow was uncomfortably too slow with my gait. 

Ate my Picky recovery bar right after, stretched a bit then hit up about 20 mins of strength/PT/core exercises.