Tonight felt much better, but I'm still not back to 100%. I'm still a little bit sore. My quads started hurting a bit at mile 5, and I could really feel everything after stretching. Thinking back, though, I have never run a half marathon as part of marathon training, where I had to immediately jump back into high mileage after the half. So, although I wish I had recovered faster, I'm glad to be doing 7 miles again already.
Total time was 1:08:29, a 9:47 average. My mile splits were: 9:55, 9:53, 9:48, 9:51, 9:47, 9:50, and 9:26. I ran negative splits of one minute. I'm happy that my splits were not all over the map tonight. They were pretty close together, except for the usual "turbo" last mile.
I plan on getting up early and running tomorrow morning. I'm attending continuing education for work all day, and I don't have to be there until 8:30! |