I wasn't planning on writing today, but after today's run went bad I just wanted to gripe about it some.
Today was a planned 12 mile run with both The Woodlands Fit and Kingwood Fit. I didn't have any great plans for today's run, just to take it easy and enjoy it. Before I got to the 2 mile point I was needing an unplanned rest/walk break, and after that I never really got it together and was walking as I needed. I ended up shortening the run to around 7.5 miles in 105 minutes, which is better than I thought it was at the time, given I probably walked at least 1.5 miles of the 7.5 and maybe a fair bit more. This may not have been "hitting the wall" in the traditional running sense, but it felt the same to me as that "wall" I once hit around mile 21/22 at SunMart last year, only without the blisters this time.
I figure that my problems were the result of 2 mistakes. First, I may have expected too much of myself coming off of last weekend's 30K--even if I did take the 2 days after as rest days. Second, I ran without my Garmin, in favor of a Polar heart rate monitor with larger numbers. I think this allowed me start out faster than expected on the run, which led to an overall bad run.
Whateve the answer, I suppose I did fine for one of those really bad days everyone will get sometime--and, in the end, I did get a decent distance covered for the day.
Later today, I will go grab some lunch with my wife, do a little shopping, and work on doing some pre-Christmas house cleaning.
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Sorry your run wasn't great. At least it's now and not at the Houston Marathon. Starting out too fast always gets me. You did better than me this weekend. It's a recovery week for me, so only 5 or 6 miles planned, but I feel like I'm getting a cold and the weather is awful here today, so I'm being lazy.
I probably should have just aimed at 5 - 6 miles and enjoyed a light recovery run, especially since I had some hard workouts last week.
Live and learn. Of course, if I really learned something I wouldn't have biked and swam today, both were fairly intense, but not long.
You're right that it was a good day for a bad run.
Take it easy over there and be well.
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