Seven days into 2016 and I am seven days into the run streak (technically eight since I ran on Dec 31st…) and I am 33.98 miles into it. Considering I ran a grand total of 36.6 through December 2015 – I would say I am off to a pretty good start.
Current daily average is sitting at 4.85 miles which I am happy with – by late spring I would like to be back up to pulling off the occasional 50 mile week though.
Overall I am feeling pretty good. My legs are tired but right now I am letting how they feel dictate how fast I am running and that seems to be preventing injury or burn out – and all things considered the speed isn’t too awful. I still have a lot of work to do there but I am still capable of good bursts so I am feeling pretty positive I will get that back.
So far the runs have broken down to about 2/3rds of the miles on the treadmill and the other 1/3rd was done outside. As I ramp up longer runs outside I suspect this should get closer to half and half.
Even though I am tired I do feel more energized overall so I am feeling pretty good about this run streak experiment at this point. It is still early stages but I am motivated and that is a nice change of pace compared to a good chunk of last year.
I’ve seen a slight improvement in my weight as well as I kick my metabolism back up (and watch what I am eating better) – there is still a fair bit of work to do there as well an improvement is an improvement.
Tomorrow should be a 1 mile rest day and then some decent outside mileage outside over the weekend. The weather is supposed to get quite cold again though so I might be spending more time with my dear friend the treadmill for a while!
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