Where's the Donuts?

I ended up taking yesterday off, playing softball instead. That meant there was some rust to work out of my legs this morning, and it took about 4 miles to do so. I was pretty tight through the Manette-Bachman Park-Lions Park route, then loosened up near the end and my legs felt good coming in. Nothing else too spectacular, 40 minutes at about an even 7.30 pace. 

Had to rush this morning because of early meetings at work (it's usually not a good sign when your boss calls at 7:30, good thing I was back by then), and just got a few miles in through the streets and hills of Manette. I meant to add a few more in the p.m., but I got home late and gassed from a long, stressful day. So it goes. My legs were tight and pretty dead this morning. I'll see how they feel tomorrow, but I'm going to try and get something with a little uptempo in it, maybe just a tinman tempo for a few miles. I was thinking that 800 workout James and a few others have done recently, but that may wait. 

Five miles with an added tinman tempo from about mile 2 through 4 (maybe just shy of 4, actually, though part of the tempo was faster than I planned because of downhill). Then a mile cool down and 3x100 striders just to make sure my heart rate got up again and my legs felt some turnover. Legs felt good and loose, but that's probably because I ran in the evening instead of my usual morning. I'm going to try and continue doing that mid-week, since Wednesday is usually the day I get off work a bit earlier and it's nice to be able to sleep in and start the morning relaxed to break up the week. Back to the morning grind tomorrow.