Start time: 8/13/09, 8:15am
Location: North Arlington
Distance: 4 miles
Average pace: 8:23min/mile
Total Miles For August: 45 miles
Total Miles For 2009: 504 miles
Ah, the best-laid-plans and all that. I originally had this week’s exercise all mapped out:
Mon: 4-5 mile run (morning), lap swimming class (evening)
Tue: spinning class
Wed: 4-5 mile run
Thu: rest
Fri: 7 mile run
Sat: 14 mile run
Instead, I came down with what is either allergy problems or a nasty cold starting on Saturday; the jury is still out on which it was. All I know for certain is that it knocked me for a loop through the end of Monday, but even Tuesday and Wednesday still had lingering effects. So, I ended up taking those days off. Under the circumstances, my 7/14 run for Friday and Saturday seemed like a pretty bad idea. So instead I just went for a four-mile run today, and then I’ll run some on Saturday. As it was, today’s run definitely was tough towards the end; in the last mile I ended up taking a minute walk-break because I was feeling majorly beat, but even with that it’s not a bad pace at all considering how badly I was feeling earlier this week.
On the bright side, I could really feel the difference with the new shoes this morning. And since the last pair was retired at the 500-mark for the year, it’ll be easy to track how many miles this new pair has!
What are you running in now? (me is a shoe geek).
You didn’t miss much on M-W — those have been the worst days for running this year. If you were going to be sick a few days, those were the right ones!
I’m in Brooks Addiction; I used to run in Brooks Beast (I do some pretty heavy pronation!) but when they changed the shoe last year it ended up not working well for me. This is only my second or third pair of them and they seem to be working out pretty well.
I must admit that the horrific temperatures of earlier in the week made it much easier to skip running. Although I was pretty bummed about missing swimming time, ah well.