Running Log, Week 4
Mileage for week: 15
Number of run days: 5
Long run for week: 3
Aches, pains, complaints: This was a lower-mileage week designed to get me over the hump from running four days a week to running five. It went okay, though that fifth run was a little brutal (a fact I’m sure had nothing to do with the mass quantities of champagne I’d consumed the night before). On the whole, things are going well; I’ve upped the stretching of my hips, and that’s helped a good deal with the lower-back soreness. I’ve also discovered that my base easy-mileage pace is a good bit faster than it used to be, which is a nice thing to find out. The schedule ramps up quickly from here, though, so I’m still pretty cautious in my optimism.
12 December 2004, 7.53 pm
You managed to run after a night of champagnery? When I’m in that situation, I can hardly get off the couch. I doff my cap to you.
12 December 2004, 10.12 pm
I’m torn between making a braggartly comment about my general level of studliness, a self-deprecating comment about my very high post-frivolity guilt levels, or a more honest comment about how the combination of stubborn adherence to a goal-based schedule and the knowledge that I’d actually feel better if I sweated some of those post-champagne toxins right out of my system managed to get me out the door and onto the treadmill.
Um. Yeah. That last one, I guess.