none the worse
I just finished doing some work on the main website and I can’t believe I’m posting at 11:15 pm but what the hey!
Today at lunch, Corinne and I did our 10k four-hill lunch route. I warned her I was unsure how fast or well I’d be able to run because of adding bike commuting to my life this week. Her response was that she’d started speed work yesterday and was fine with whatever happened.
To give myself a chance for a quality run, I didn’t ride today and I’m happy with how everything turned out.
The first 1/2 mile or so was really weird. I had strange aches and pains in places I can’t recall I’ve had before (blame the biking!) but these subsided fairly quickly and I found my running legs before the first hill – Walterdale.
We kept up a fair pace (I’m thinking about an 8 minute-mile). So, not quite a tempo run but I think the quality of those hills made up for that. I felt pretty good the whole time but was definitely feeling it by the fourth and final hill (Bellamy).
I took it fairly easy up Bellamy and really surprised myself – I had lots of energy and actually had a terrific kick in the last 100 meters or so!
Maybe it’s just in my mind (I don’t care if it is!) but my legs actually felt stronger climbing those hills today. Is it possible that only two days on the bike could have an effect already?
At any rate, I’ll bike again tomorrow and go for an easy 30-minute recovery run at lunch. Then, on Friday I’ll skip biking and go for an easy 45 minute run so I can rest up for Saturday’s 18-miler.
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Thursday June 17, 2004 @
Let me get this straight.
You take your lunch hour and RUN instead of eating.
there is something fundamentally wrong with that.
I put down my twinky and take my hat off to you.