It was hard to get up this morning. Rosie decided she was done sleeping around 02:30, and wouldn't let either of us get back to sleep for more than a few minutes for the rest of the night. Just after my alarm went off Lissa rolled over, put Rosie in the crook of my arm and said "do you want to cuddle with your Dad?" How can you get up when you have a 4 month old baby in your arms? I eventually forced myself to get up and go running. It didn't take more than a quarter of mile to remember how hard the Higdon training schedules are when you're first getting started. My calf, quads and ankles are all tired and sore - although not as sore as I expected. I guess I wasn't in such bad shape after all. I ran the same route as last Thursday, and I'm pretty pleased with my improvement. Last week I ran the 4 miles in 33:11 for an average of an 8:14/mile pace. Today my total time was 32:02, for an average pace of 7:59/mile. I even managed to bust out a 7:29 and 7:33 in the last two miles of the run. (Which also happen to the two downhill miles). Oh yeah, it was cold. My eyelashes froze, again.
GPS output:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/4841539
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