Snap out of it
I think a week ago when I knew I was cutting my miles back this week, I put myself in a frame of mind of just getting through the week. Then when I started feeling bad it seemed like everything got worse.
That led to almost turning my alarm off this morning and sleeping in. I briefly thought I could just sleep for another hour or so and then get in my 10 miles tonight. One bad thought leading to another.
When I finally got out of bed and started my run with my dog, I felt miserable. The humidity was even worse than the past few weeks after rain last night. I was having a hard time breathing even though I was intentionally going slower than usual.
After dropping my dog off at home after a few miles and then running a few more, I snapped out of it. After my post the other day about bouncing back after a bad run, I realized I wasn’t practicing my own advice.
While I was still struggling a bit with the humidity, the second half of today’s 10 miles was definitely better — both physically and mentally. It wasn’t that big of a negative split, but the second 5 miles were about 30 seconds faster than the first 5. I also played this well with the first mile being the slowest (9:45) and the final mile being the fastest (9:11).
I started thinking at the end of my run how I could do with humidity about half of what it was today, and I really think I can drop these times significantly both on a normal long run and in a race condition. With my 3:45 goal time for Baltimore, I like where I am pace wise on these long runs, especially with this weather. Today’s long run was a 9:26 pace, only 50 seconds off my marathon goal pace.
Today's elevation. Hilly as always.
It’s rare that I say I’m glad a week is over, but I’m really glad to move on to next week. I’m looking forward to higher mileage, slightly cooler conditions and the Lynchburg Half Marathon on Saturday. As I wrote the other day, it’s time to get the hell over it and move on. This time I mean it.
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Great job! Hope you get some recovery time!
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I want your long run pace. Just sayin. But I think I'm going to have to "snap out of it" too and just accept a slower, closer to 10 minute mile pace.
If that's not what you want, don't settle for it.
Yeah humidity is a motivation killer, hang in there.
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