Lots of Recovery

Last week was filled with lots of recovery. I got out the door on most days and things started to slowly feel better as the week wore on. I'm not sure why, but after my last two marathons I have felt completely beat up. That's not to say that after other marathons I felt great, but the last two have been noticably worse. I'm not entirely sure why, but I think it probably has to do with the shift to wearing racing flats. The legs just take a lot more pounding than they do with the trainers that I have worn in past marathons. I guess that's the price you pay for ensuring that the only thing that will slow you down is your own poor pacing/fueling decisions/incomplete training/etc.

Today I decided that I wanted to do something that would be up-tempo to see how everything responded so I set out on some quarters. The plan was to do them until I got tired which I was hoping would be at least 12, but after 8 I started feeling that old marathon fatigue starting to creep back into my body and decided to call it quits right there. There will be time to tough out workouts, but this week doesn't seem like the time to do it. I did manage to keep the average pace for the eight 400s right at 75 seconds each with about a 55 second rest interval between each hard effort. It turned out to be a nice little workout. Hopefully this will be the springboard that gets me back into training.