I hate when I go out for a run and my legs feel like they have lead in them. I know it’s bound to happen. We all have good runs, and bad ones, but it can be really difficult to keep going when everything just feels wrong.
David and I are going to the Ginger Man again tonight for glass night, so I knew I wouldn’t be able to get my interval run in after work. That meant this morning was the only time, and I took yesterday as a rest day for bowling, and I really didn’t want 2 days off in a row. The plan was for a 10 min warmup, followed by 14 x 30-30 and then a 10 minute cool down. I walked out the door into the wall of humidity that is Houston morning air, and felt dead after my 10 min warmup! Then time for the sprint intervals (if you can call them that). My legs just didn’t have much sprint in them. I usually manually lap my Garmin when I do intervals so I can isolate my speeds, but my Garmin started telling me that it was low on memory and to delete old stuff, so I decided to just do without. I hadn’t really been paying much attention to my pace before that anyway since I felt dead slow.
I managed to get through my 14 repetitions completely drenched in sweat, and was pretty close to the house, so I decided to stop there and my my cool down a nice walk back to the house. I finally got a chance to look over my run once I got to work, and I did surprisingly well. I guess the feeling of my legs wasn’t necessarily accurate. All of my pacing was pretty similar to the run I did last Tuesday on the dreadmill, which I felt really good for, and was in the delightfully air conditioned gym!
Maybe I should be listening to my legs a little less 🙂
I’m also in a weird phase of my running right now, because I can’t stand listening to music lately. If I start out running with it, I end up getting annoyed and turn it off. This has never happened to me. Something out the peacefulness has just sat right with me lately…
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