My legs felt a little better this morning which is surprising I rolled them with the "Stick" last night before I went to bed so maybe that had something to do with it, they weren't great but the were better than yesterday's trek. I headed out towards Payson Park but cut the hill portion out, there is one 300 meter hill just as I am coming into Payson but I took it easy up that one. Warmed up with 3 easy miles and then on my way back picked it up for a few miles, not real fast but my legs had some spring in them, once I got back to my house I did a loop around there to tack on another mile to get my seven miles in for the day.
The thing that was good about today's run was I determined when to slow down and speed up and not my body telling me, my goal is to get were I can run 7 miles as a true recovery run and not have to try and recovery from fatigue so I can run the next day. Once I have that accomplished then I feel like I can attack the higher mileage and get stronger.
Average pace was 8:39 heart rate average 150, total time was 1:01:05. My splits went as follows; 8:49(139), 8:54(145), 8:54(151), 8:18(148), 8:34(155), 8:43(156), 8:21(156).
I had some more good tunes this morning to get me through and I was pleasantly surprised with the temperature I was slightly over dressed, which is a change!
See ya tomorrow.
Nimbus 9 (70) | 