With big races all over the globe, I was contributing to the effort by knocking out my ten-miler this morning. Rather than two hilly loops, though, I started with a 2 and 3 mile loop of relative flat before a hilly five. The upcoming race is essentially flat, so although it's always good to do hills for strength work, I need to spend more time on level terrain.
My pace to begin was way too fast. I should be starting really easy, but for whatever reason, I was running with effort right from the gun. This caught up with me on the last loop, when I was working much too hard, but wasn't breaking any records. I still came in with a respectable time, but it was almost a minute slower than my best, and with the effort I was expending, not up to par.
I think part of the problem was a bit of time lost to the wind, which was pretty stiff, along with the bad pacing. I'm also really tight through the lower legs right now. With all the races last weekend, I didn't do any trigger point therapy, and I think that caught up with me. I'll be sure to work things out tonight, and probably be hobbling tomorrow.
Run: ~10.6 miles, 16:15/24:04/38:07
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