Yesterday was a recovery day. It's nice to have a day of rest even though some runners don't take one. Some cross-train on the recovery day. I lay on the couch.
I need that day. Not only because my body needs a rest, but also because some weeks I need to be able to look forward to a day when it isn't about personal bests, or hills, or tempo runs. It's just about me and my couch.
It's a Catch-22 though, while I enjoyed yesterday's break, I did NOT want to run today. My thinking went something like this "I'll run early in the morning." I slept in. Then "I'll run during Abby's nap time." I napped with her. Finally at 5:30PM I worked up the motivation to run.
And so I ran. My plan was a quick 5 mile tempo run. If I could keep a 7:45 pace for 5 miles it would be a good day. I'm not sure if it was because I had a day off yesterday or because I had such a great training week last week but at mile 5 I decided to push and so I finished my first sub 7:00 mile (6:58) for my last mile. I felt great. I still feel great. I think that was my first sub 7:00 in about 3-4 years. And I did it after 5 miles. So the take home lessons for today was: Give it a rest. My goal is to qualify for the Boston Marathon.
Day 4: 6 miles, 45 minutes, 7:30 pace.
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