Lungs still very gummed up, some mild GI distress (antibiotics?) and I could feel my hip muscles rather tight by the end of it--but the runners amongst you will be laughing as I say, fervently, it was utterly lovely!
(It is irrational, really I know I could not have lost all my running fitness in a little over two weeks, but the fact is I do not have very much experience with these things so as to know; I last ran on Feb. 14 and then had a week of insane work and a week of this awful chest cold/lung ailment plus business travel, and really it was slightly preying on me even before I got sick that it might be I would no longer be able to run at all!)
5.1 miles, 10:43 average pace, average HR 146.
(Pulled back whenever I came up on 150, want to keep the stress on the body low till I am one step--several steps?--more fully recovered.)
2 comments:
Glad you enjoyed it -- even gladder you ran smart!
Maybe the running gods (Mercury surely being one?) just decreed it to be a tough day: I fought my way through an inappropriately tough four miles this morning in Chicago despite gorgeous weather.
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