Taking a Step Back

Yesterday I mentioned in my post how I was wanted to do some tempo work and thankfully, Mike and Eric both jumped in to tell me that I should probably think twice about that, with all the other stuff I've been doing this week. Actually it shouldn't take two people to remind me of this. Just a couple of days ago, I was writing about how I had given up on being a hero in my workouts and now just wanted to do steady solid runs every day. And now, not even 72 hours later, there I was overdoing it. I'm still a newbie when it comes to incorporating speed and mileage together. While I have gone over 100 miles 5 out of the last 6 weeks, I've only started incorporating faster than MP workouts in there last week. So I'm still trying to figure out that balance between when to push it and when to just let it be. After thinking about it, I decided I would just go by feel today.

I did 11 miles in the morning with 10 strides at the end. It felt right. The strides seemed to wake my legs up and the easy miles before it were just what the doctor ordered. At lunch, I did another 8 miles with Chloe, my 3 year old daughter, along for the ride in the jogging stroller. It's nice to do runs with the jogging stroller as it serves as a throttle. Not many people can really go crazy with the speed while pushing a jogging stroller around. At one point, I mentioned to Chloe how I was getting tired. Her advice? "Well, maybe you should slow down Daddie." From the mouths of babes. From the mouths of babes.