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Spanish Fork,UT, USA

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Jun 11, 2009

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Female

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Local Elite

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5k-   18:25

10k-   39:06

13.1-   1:25

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I'm Lily, and I love to do hard things.

 

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Thu, Mar 22, 2012
Total Distance
5.50

Strength trained my biceps and triceps a bit. Then 21 minutes on the elliptical, not much and pointless I know.

Came home and ran 5.50 miles. I felt slow and sluggish. I know it was supposed to be a slower recovery run day but I am still so hard on myself when I look at my watch and see an 8 min pace. I need to get over the psychie of it. I couldn't figure out why I had no pick up. Until I stopped to fiddle with my ipod, and I realized my quads were quite sore from the track workout yesterday. duh me.....that's why I was sluggish today. But I still came home feeling like a loser. I would have run at least 2 more miles, but I had a meeting early this morning at my daughters school I had to be too. Maybe some more slower miles this evening. I hope.

Comments
From Andrea on Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 14:29:04 from 72.37.171.52

You had a great workout yesterday - you should be tired! I always think about running slower this way - because I'm running slower, I'm on my feet longer and thus getting a more aerobic/endurance benefit. That 8 min barrier is mentally tough to get over though!

From Rachelle on Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 14:40:28 from 199.190.170.28

Nice job Lily! I used to be the same way if I saw a pace above 8ish but then I realized that was why I was constantly sore/achy/fatigued. Because I wasn't running enough slow recovery miles. Slower aerobic paced miles are a major part of the equation in my opinion. I love running slow now. ha!

From Chad Robinson on Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 14:55:07 from 50.73.39.89

I ran 10 miles @ 8:22 pace this morning and felt fantastic about it. There are a lot of little benificial things that go on in your body while doing slow runs. Let the fast days be super fast and the slow days be slow.

From Carina on Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 15:24:07 from 204.15.86.83

I totally have this issue (not as much now that I'm so slow) I think when I start running faster again I'm not even going to bring my watch with me on recovery days!

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