RUN: 6.1 miles in about an hour
BIKE: 12 miles in about 45 mins
I shouldn't say the speed work was a fail. I did go to the track, I ran parts of the workout (4x1600m, 1st 1200 at open mary pace, last 400 at 10K pace) in that I ran 4x1600, and I pushed through some numbing fatigue to get it done!
Yesterday was a rest day, but I sure as heck don't feel rested! I felt OK until I got half a block into this run. Immediately my legs were shaky, my mind unfocused, and feet dragging. Tripping over the sidewalk, curb, or minute crack was a possibility!! Yet here I was, jogging off to the track.
Usually I feel a little "cold" until I have 20 mins of warmup. After just over a mile today or WU I didn't feel any better at all. At all! I had visions of falling on the track and getting scraped up, of twisting my ankle or knee, or some other injury due to running in a fuzz-brained, shaky state.
That looked like a really great workout! I would like to get back to it someday, but that someday will probably be next year.
I found myself running some negative scripts in this run. When your head starts focusing on what's going wrong or what could go wrong, then suddenly you're measuring or counting each step. Then each step becomes an ordeal. With some effort, those scripts can change into positive ones about still moving, the efficiency of my stride, the way the track just disappears under me with each step...once I do that the laps just go by smoothly with so much less effort.
For this run I was so fatigued, in my head I was able to clearly make the last 1600 the last mile at Redman. That's how it felt!
The ride was cut in half, just an easy spin on the trainer to stretch out and move the leg muscles.
No commuting today :(
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