Tueday double therapy session

BIKE: 70 mins, about 19 miles? 3x14 mins at 75% with 1 min rest.
RUN: 50 mins, 5.3 miles. Same route I did Sunday with a few changes.

Some days are longer than others, regardless of what the clock tells me. I slept in this morning to try to catch up on sleep. I meant to ride outdoors but it was still rainy and wet. Besides, I find that riding indoors lets me control the intervals and drills. So I rode indoors again and felt better after riding than I did before.

The run came in the evening, and I almost didn't do it. I skipped running in FoPa from work because of the chill, I wanted another layer. I was sure that once I came home I'd skip the run altogether, with the evening setting in alongside fatigue it would be hard to leave the comfort of a chair. That and I have an all-or-nothing approach to some of my training. The plan will say 5 miles, and I'll think that if I can't get all 5 in I'll just skip it, when instead I could just get 3-4 and at least do something. I'm working on that.

This was my first run in my new Brooks shoes and I was excited to see how they'd fit for the upcoming marathon. Surprisingly, I made it out the door around 6:40pm. The first 2 miles were awful. I'm not sure what kept me moving. Once I'd reached TGP, I keep thinking about how nice it would be to just sit down, or maybe even curl up under a tree and sleep. But something kept me moving. I knew the park well enough to know where to cut the run short, so I kept delaying a turn-around decision. Get to the next intersection, re-evaluate, repeat. I'd cycle between feeling great and feeling lousy in just minutes. I reached the "4-mile" turnaround and kept going. I'm glad I did, because just after the 27:54 time mark, the run turned around for me. The pace became easy and faster, hills felt good, and my mind let go of all the stress weighing it down. The clutter of thoughts, the headache, and sluggish thinking all washed away and was left somewhere around Kings. (it came back later, but at least I had some relief from it).

The new shoes were great, not a lot of road feel but a nice heel fit and springy-forward feeling. They still need orthotics, or rather I still need them. But I had to try. And my Garmin 310 arrived in the mail today!