After pummeling my quads with 17.4 miles of hills this weekend, decided to take it easy on them tonight. Fortunately, my landlord cooperated by reopening the fitness room tonight, so to the treadmill I went. Standard progression run finishing at slightly sub-9:00 pace, getting faster every mile. Quads were really hurting early in the run, less so as I got warmed up. Discovered afterward that the glutes were kinda sore.
Plan right now is to run 7 tomorrow and 5 on Wednesday to finish the year at an even 1900 miles. That would be equal to running from my apartment to the outskirts of San Jose, CA. Or 450 miles more than running from here to Provo, for you Utahn bloggers (is that really what Utah people call themselves? Utahns? I remember seeing that in some stories datelined Salt Lake City back in my previous life as a journalist.). Or 437 miles more than running from my place to downtown Boston, to get to the real point of this blog.
I know that's chicken feed compared to the mileage Sasha and some of the other FRB bloggers put in, but compared to where I was two years ago, that's incomprehensible to me. And, barring injury, it's gonna pale in comparison to the mileage I plan to rack up in 2009. | 