It was cool this morning (38) and a liitle bit windy. I wanted to do a tempo run this morning to see how my legs are doing and to get a feel for my upcoming half. I started off with a couple of miles for warmup and I didn't feel the best getting warmed up but decided to go ahead with the tempo. When I started the tempo I just tried to ease into the effort and it felt like I didn't have any energy. My legs feel like I am running in quicksand. I don't know what is going on but I just shut the tempo down after 1 mile because it felt like a race effort just to run a 6:50 mile. I think my plan now is to just run easy the rest of this week and then next week do an aggressive taper before the Half marathon. Maybe if I really backoff I will be able to get my legs back and be able to do a decent run. My expectations at this point for the race are really decreasing.
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