220 when I woke up and 218 after the run tonight.
Didn’t run last night – I had a massive headache most of the day yesterday and had to blow off the run last night. I did get in the morning run yesterday of 2.09 miles in 19:50 – headache made that a slow run too though.
I’m not sure if the headache was a reaction to over training or if I was fighting something off (our daughter had a fever a couple days ago) but either way I think I need to back off on the double run days at this point. I can see negative impacts to the speed training from the double runs and that is definitely not the intent of the extra runs.
So for the next few weeks I am going to drop the double runs and re-evaluate after the WFPS half marathon is done. I think they were helping the endurance but I was just getting too tired and that was making it too hard to push hard on the evening runs – it might be that I just need to give it more time to get my body used to it but with the next race in just over 2 weeks I don’t think I have that time right now.
Run tonight was pretty solid – the rest yesterday probably helped – I also started slower than I wanted for a pace for 3 miles and then pumped up the speed from there – it felt good and I think I did more miles with less walking (none actually) than I would have if I had started out faster. Good training for the next race – definitely need more practice at starting slower so I can finish stronger.
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