Recovery Run
Today: 3.0 miles
Week: 11.92 miles
January: 72.07 miles
2010: 72.07 miles
Here’s my last week of runs:
Wednesday: 4.5 miles including speed work (and kind of overdone speed work at that)
Friday: 3.5 miles of unexpected hills
Saturday: 8 miles, many hills
Monday: 4 miles, ignored Garmin and ran faster than usual
Wednesday: 4.9 miles with more speed work
In short, there’s not really an easy run in there. Result is a left quadriceps that is not too happy. I don’t think it’s injured, but I know if I keep going like this, it will be. So today I decided to do a nice, slow 3 miles.
It snowed most of the day yesterday. Not a lot of accumulation, but the sidewalks are white. I woke up this morning to what sounded like a 747 winding up for takeoff in the street out front. It was just the wind. The Weather Channel app on my iPhone told me it was 10ºF before the wind chill. I could have gone out for a run, but I really had absolutely no interest in doing so. Instead, I embraced my inner treadmill runner.
I listened to an old episode of Phedippidations, about running legend Terry Fox, which was was intense enough to hold my interest for the 36 minutes I was down there. My Garmin foot pod and the treadmill’s display were amazingly in agreement today, on both pace and distance. And it felt about right from a perceived effort viewpoint too. Average pace was 12:02, which is a good recovery pace for me at this point.
Tomorrow I’m going to do a short long run, whatever that means. I just want to take it easy again, probably 4-5 miles, slow. Next Sunday, February 7, is my 5k race and I would like to get one more speed work session in on Wednesday. I want to make sure my quads are well rested before that. If there’s still any problem with them, I’ll skip the speed work and save them for race day. Last thing I need is an injury 4 days before my first race.
