I wasn’t sure after the Beaudry Lemming Loop on the weekend if doing the scheduled run tonight was a good idea or not. But I had had 2 days of rest and felt I needed to do something.
My schedule (that was created before I decided to run for 12 hours on Saturday) had 10 miles in for tonight but I figured that I would get on the treadmill and play it by feel. I would shoot for 2 miles at least with 5 being about where I expected to end up. With that plan I set the treadmill at a 7 mph and just kept it steady.
I felt really good though at the 5 mile point so I decided to keep going after a 1 minute walk. At this point I bumped the speed up to 8 mph until I hit the hour point. I then did another 1 minute walk before bumping the speed back up to 7.5 mph where I kept it the rest of the run.
All in all a good run – no hurting and no stiffness and most importantly it looks like no ill effects from the crazy of Saturday. Nice!
So it looks like I should be recovered for a nice strong half marathon at the WFPS Half marathon on October 19th. That will be my last race before the Dopey Challenge. I’m still trying to decide if I will go hard or take it easy for that one but I will have to play that by ear as the race gets closer and I see how I am feeling.
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