Back to work! I definitely feel refreshed from the vacation, but the enormity of IMoo is starting to weigh heavily on me. Because of yesterday’s long ride and the fact that I have to be in court today for a docket call at 1:30 PM, there’s not much I can do about riding today. So, I decided to make today a "long" run. I was a little nervous about a long run because I haven’t been running much at all since the BSLT 70.3 injury.
Anyway, I took my running stuff to work and was planning to do a 45-minute to 1-hour run down at Town Lake after work. Actually, I surprised myself. Despite the long ride yesterday, I was able to run for 75 minutes today with no pain. I took an easy pace, and granted I hadn’t just finished 112 miles, but I felt really good. This was the first time I’d run continuously for 75 minutes without stopping to walk.
I walked from Jack & Adam’s down to the bridge at Lamar and Riverside, and then ran two consecutive loops of the trail between First Street and MoPac. I took two vanilla Clif Shots with me and I think that helped. I also stopped at the water coolers on each end to rehydrate, so I think that helped a lot. I’m hoping to increase my maximum run time up to over 2 hours before IMoo. I think as long as I run conservatively and with proper form (and get my new shoes – tomorrow, for sure! – I’ll be okay).
Tomorrow is a bike workout (short ride) and my Texas Iron run workout . . . most likely a pretty short distance.
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