Not quite sure what to make of tonight's run, Felt on Saturday I was coming down with one of my usual post-marathon URIs, plus it rained some, so skipped that day's run. Sunday didn't feel any better, maybe worse, and again decided discretion was the better idea at this point, only eight days out from a marathon and with nothing looming on the racing front. Again skipped last night, although I felt better. Tonight, decided to go ahead and run. Went out about 8:45, after dinner with wife and son and catching up on some mail that long since needed to be sorted and dealt with. With wind chill in the teens, and the Garmin not charged up, decided to run by feel and hammer it because it was too cold out there to dawdle. I really thought during the run that I was roughly at Memphis MP; that's what the effort really felt like. So I got back from roughly 6.5 miles in 55 minutes. That's a nice pace, but not MP. I know that the JBH loop is considerably hillier, up and down, than anything I found in Memphis, but still the effort level on flat terrain felt very similar, and the legs really felt pretty good for 10 days out from a 26.2 PR. I think, URI or not, three days off was probably a pretty good idea to accelerate the recovery from the race. It may allow me to avoid some of the dead-leg stuff I felt last Memphis '08 and after Newport. | 