Recovery

The goal today was to recover from the previous two days of speed workouts. Last week I made the mistake of running my "recovery" run at a 6:29 pace. While I was able to still get in a couple of decent workouts later in the week, I know that doing that on a regular basis is a recipe for distaster. Well, disaster might be a bit of an overstatement, but you get my point.

So the goal of today was to do both runs at a pace above 7 min/mile. I'm not sure why, but keeping the pace down on my recovery has been a bit of a challenge lately. When I was doing pure base building, I had no problem doing some of my easier runs at 7:30 pace. You'd think that with the increase in intensity I'd have an easier time taking it easy on the easy days, but that hasn't been the case. I think the cooler weather that we've had lately plays a part in it. It's comforting to see how easy it is to run when the temps are in the low 60's as opposed to the 80's with humidity. It gives me hope.

Anyway, the morning 10 miler was done right at 7:00 minute/mile pace. I had the wind at my back so the effort was definitely easier than a normal 7 minute pace. The afternoon was another 7 miles at an easy pace. I came out of both runs feeling pretty good. With a half marathon coming up on Sunday I have a pretty easy schedule for the rest of the week so I'm hoping to really be able to nail the half.