Wednesday's Run: 2.91 miles: 25:04, 8:36/mi
Yesterday's Run: 2.89 miles: 23:19, 8:03/mi
I learned a valuable lesson on Wednesday - never run directly after eating Boston Market. Or maybe the lesson should be... Never "eat" at Boston Market... Either way, Wednesday's run was doomed from the start. I had just arrived from a tiny business trip, where I had spent 9 hours driving in a 24 hour span. Sprinkle in two heavy meals before Boston Market and another painfully, freezing temp - and you get a pretty bloated, tired, cold, runner - resulting in my worst run in 3 weeks. Though the time wasn't that surprising - or important. I just wanted to make sure I got it in. If you haven't figured it out yet, I've entered "obsessive mode" of late - with new crazy, crazy goals (which I'll get to in my next post) and couldn't go two days in a row without a run.
After another day of rest, I finally felt like myself, and ran more like myself as well. Yesterday's run wasn't quite as good as Monday's BOY (best-of-year) pace, and certainly didn't feel as good - but it was much, much closer to that - than Wednesday's debacle, so I feel much better.
Weather Update: With April approaching, we're finally starting to get typical February weather. I shouldn't bitch too much about it being in the 30s - considering what I ran in six weeks ago, but I'm bitching none the less. This is, and hopefully will be, the worst winter of my life - times twenty. It is never going to end. At least after six weeks - the paths are finally clear.
My goal this weekend is nothing major. I just want to break the BOY set last Monday, to convince myself I'm still trending in the right direction after a rough eating week. In fact, let's go for under 22:30. My best chance will likely be today. It seems lately that my second day of a back-to-back is usually the better time.
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