So today was a major cleaning day - after I had to spend a couple of hours working on a computer-related issue that I got a page on, I helped Lybi and the boys do a major cleanup job on the house. The boys cleaned their room, I cleaned the family room, moved all the furniture to vacuum the whole floor. Good hard work. I went back to road runner sports and returned my axioms (they gave me HUGE blood blisters on each foot when I ran my 1/2 marathon) - thankfully they have a 60-day no questions asked return policy on their shoes. Haven't decided yet which shoes to buy to replace them with - tried on the Asics DS Trainers and the Nike Zoom Elite+, like the wide toe box in the Asics, like the extra cushioning in the Nikes, but they have a pretty narrow toe box. Got home, and after Lybi's piano lessons, we spent several hours making and baking the best bread ever! She got a wonderful whole wheat bread recipe that uses fresh ground wheat, special yeast called SAF yeast, honey, salt and oil, plus a natural dough enhancer. We had a good time making the bread, and an even better time eating it! All the FRB'ers who come to run Del Sol will get a chance to sample . . . With all that going on, I was fairly wiped out, and thoroughly unmotivated to run. Lybi somehow helped me to pluck up the nerve to get out and at least do my 6 miles, which I did. Once I got going, I felt really good, although I was a bit wheezy from having inhaled some wheat dust when we were grinding the wheat. Today's run ended up basically being a progressive tempo run, finishing at LT pace. Miles were as follows: Mile 1
| 7:28 | Mile 2
| 7:11 | Mile 3
| 6:54
| Mile 4
| 6:59
| Mile 5
| 6:45
| Mile 6
| 6:34 |
Felt good throughout, no pain in the side of my knee, although I stretched out my IT band before I got going, and I think that helped. Overall, good run, probably better that I didn't do a real long run today, guess I'll have to deal with Lybi beating me in weekly mileage for another week :) Hopefully I will be able to get going next week and get a run in every day, as well as stay healthy, so that I can get my mileage up over 40. I think right now the plan will be to do 7 miles every day to put me at 42. I won't have much time to do more on Saturday, as Lybi has cavalcade, which she will need to spend most of the day on.
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