Okay, I'm only going to say this once, then I'll change my attitude, pick my head up, get back on the bandwagon and make it work: I think St George Marathon is going to be a disaster for me this year. My calves are still not cooperating like I want them too, and I'm afraid it's going to cause some big problems for me this weekend. Now, that the thought is out of my head it's gone - gone - gone. Kids are off track, so I slept in and waited until baby was down for his morning nap then just ran up and down the street (I added a little loop at the end, but about the same) so I could check in on the kids that were supposedly cleaning their bedrooms every mile. Lucy (my puppy) hit the first couple loops with me - wow, I need to take her on more runs. She's getting slow and lazy - after the first mile of needing to bound off everywhere. The first 3 miles were not good: slow, more painful on the calves than expected and normally on Mondays after a nice rest I've got a skip in my step - not today. After I dropped off Lucy (at mile 3), I decided I really want to try and open things up and see if I could keep pace. I was able to slowly ramp things up and get faster and faster and honestly the faster paces felt better on the legs than the slower paces. I don't know if that is a good sign or not. Either way, I felt a TON better by the end of the run than I did at the beginning. Plan was to run mile 5 at a nice cool down, but I felt good so I kept running the faster pace. AP: 9:06 splits: 9:15, 9:42, 9:45, 8:42, 8:06 Stretching and hydrating on the docket for the rest of the week. Ready or not, SGM is coming!
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