I was feeling a little bad about the number of rest days in a row I took. However, I am feeling great that the desk is in place and we are starting to develop some household management streams around it. (i.e. mail, bill paying, phone set up, etc.) So I wanted to make sure I got a run in, and seeing that it is the last day of month two I decided it should probably be a long and slow.
The run felt pretty rocky. I could feel that I had taken a little too much rest time (I have read that you start loosing fit after around 3 days of inactivity) and I mistimed eating lunch that lead to food cramps 1 mile in. My 5K split was honest, nothing to write home about, but I had to pull way back on the second 5K split (like 10:00 miles for the second 5K).
After wrapping around the last bend finishing off the 10K I had planned I decided to try and bring my average mile back to respectable by tacking on an additional 1.2 mile or so which I finished off nicely. That led to another and another. I got a little carried away and really pushed the distance.
In the end it was 10 miles in 1:35:00 (9:33 miles). My first double digit run, but it was a big stretch. I won’t be attempting another run like this for a couple weeks. No complaints from the legs other than general soreness. The right Soleus / Achilles area is feeling just fine, but after I cooled down my back started acting up. Most likely because I hadn’t built up appropriately to this distance (and because I spent the better part of my rest days either shoveling snow, lifting/assembling/moving furniture, or lifting/playing with the buggo).
10 miles sounds great, but I need to stay smarter than to go out so big so fast. The next time I run this distance I will be ready for it and it will feel great too.
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