I got out later than usual today because I've taken the week between Christmas and New Years Day off of work and decided to sleep in this morning. I started my run at about 9:30. It was a nice change from Tuesday's weather at about 44 degrees.
I set out to do another 33 minutes today. I did it, but I didn't think I was going to. I got about 3 minutes in and felt like I had already run 30 minutes. I was ready to quit and walk back to the car, but I pushed on through it. My recent running lethargy is bothering me, but I think it's due to poor eating habits over Christmas. I'm hoping to remedy that over the next couple of weeks by getting back into a normal eating routine.
I was back in my home park today. I started out with a couple of warm up laps around the parking lot before setting out on my run. I'm changing up my mileage and timing tracking by only keeping track of what I run and excluding the warm up time & mileage from my total statistics. Having done my warm up in the parking lot instead of doing it along the road through the park I started my run at a different point today. I'm not sure if that threw me off or if my body is really rebelling against my recent unhealthy diet but I was really working to just keep running by the 3 minute mark. I kept going, but the whole run felt like a struggle today.
Today's Stats: I did 2.9 miles in 33 minutes which is 11:23 per mile.
Next Up: I'm hoping to get a good run in on New Years Day. I'm due for a speed day so I'll probably cut the time down to about 20 minutes and push to see how far I can run in that 20 minutes. I ordered my Garmin Forerunner 305 watch Tuesday. I'm hoping it will come in before my first run of 2011, but it's more likely to arrive sometime next week.
This is all we get???
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