Man, I really felt last week's mileage catch up to me early on this week. I was so sore on Monday following Saturday's 5K followed by Sunday's 18. I was still kind of stiff on Tuesday, but not to the extent that it was gonna keep me from running. It was pretty late when I was finally able to get started, so I just clipped leashes to both dogs and ran them until we ran out of daylight, which was only a couple of miles. I was hoping to be able to make that 1.8-mile loop twice with them, but such is autumn. Why can't we have cool temps AND long days??? The best of both worlds... It's a shame to have such beautiful weather and no daylight to enjoy it in! I finished up the 5 on The Machine.
Wednesday called for 8, but that didn't happen. As soon as I got in from work I turned on the game (Cards/Giants playoffs), which was already in the 5th inning. I watched just a little bit before the rain delay. I ended up just running 5 on The Machine during the break. I feel like I'm really getting my money's worth out of that thing already.
Thursday I was hellbent on running outside. I drove into town as soon as I got off work and got started. I felt okay. For a mile or two. And then I didn't feel so okay anymore. I kept a nice steady pace right where I wanted it (I was very intentionally keeping all my runs easy this week, for recovery purposes as well as saving my legs for RnR St. Louis.), but I felt like I was running through quicksand. With ankle weights on. And a weighted vest. I started doing math while I was running... Saturday 5.1. Sunday 18. Tuesday 5. Wednesday 5. Thursday 8. No fuckin' wonder my legs were tired! That's 41.1 miles in 6 days! I know that's nothing to some of you guys, but for me that's
A LOT. Too bad my training weeks are calculated from Monday to Monday rather than Saturday to Saturday. I don't even get to claim that as a PDR!
And then Sunday was the Rock n Roll St. Louis Half, which gets a
post of its own!