My left leg was a little achey yesterday. I decided to take it slower than normal today but keep the plan to do 6 miles. I went a slightly different route though and it ended up being 5.6 miles. I averaged 10:26 a mile. I also went to bed at the same time as my 3 year old last night around 8 pm... so I got roughly 9 hours of sleep (minus all the times I woke up to readjust the sleeping position or give a bottle to my 5 month old).
There are several hills around my house where I've been running lately. Several steep ones of around .3 miles long and one long gradual big hill of .65 miles long around mile 3-4 of my 6 mile loop. Now keep in mind--> when I used the word "steep", this is relative to where I live! Ha, ha! I live in Fort Worth, TX. This is mostly just flat praire land here... but around my house there are some rolling hills... but I'm sure people who run in Austin, TX (hill country) or especially Colorado would just laugh at what I'm calling "steep"... Hey, for what I'm used to, it's challenging, ok! Ha, ha!
I used to drive to the Trinity River to run on the crushed limestone and generally flat path there... but that's a 15 minute drive each way. By running around my house and at 5 am, I can get in more miles, more days a week without getting a babysitter. It really works out.
It's just now that I think about it, the hills around here might be the reason my legs are sore. I haven't only been increasing my milage and frequency of running, but (by running around my house instead of by the river) I've been increasing the amount of hills I run. If I can just take it easy as I'm increasing my aerobic base (as to avoid an overuse injury), over time this is going to really going to help make me faster!
Splits
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