Today's run was weak. That's the only work I can use to describe it. I don't know if I pushed myself too hard on Tuesday or if there's something else going on, but I was just weak today. I considered skipping the interval session for a nice easy run in the park, but my stubborn side won out and I ended up doing the workout as planned. I did it, but my heart wasn't in it.
I started out with a warm up mile. I took it slow and easy, but I never really felt right. I had strange aches in my legs and my breathing was all wrong. At the end of the mile, I started my interval sets. None of them were anywhere near what I did last week and I found myself not really caring. I was faster during all my rest intervals, though. I resigned myself to not pushing too hard this morning, erring on the side of listening to my body. Hopefully I'm feeling up to the long run this weekend. I'm thinking I'll make next week an easier week. Instead of a tempo run and an interval run I'll do two runs of 4 easyish miles and get back to my routine the next two weeks after that, setting myself up for another easy week before my next 5K.
Today's Stats I did 4.4 miles in 41:24 for an average pace of 9:24/mile. Not terrible all things considered but I'm not going to get faster if I don't push myself. Hopefully this was a one day thing and I'll be ready to go after next week's rest.
Next Up: I've skipped swimming this week. I haven't scheduled a triathlon - don't even have a bike yet. I'm finding it hard to motivate myself to go to the pool at 6AM to train for an imaginary future event. I would like to get back to the pool next week. Maybe taking it easier on my running days will help with that. I also have my long run coming up this weekend.
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