This morning, in the mirror after gorging myself on awesome food and drink over the past four days. Okay, I am not hairy or a cat...but you get the idea!!!
I had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We had our festivities with some friends and their families who were kind enough to invite us over so we wouldn't be alone. It was a blast, and always fun to be around family drama...that isn't yours! Then we went out Friday and Saturday night with various friends and ate, drank and were merry merry.
I did run Friday. I ran 3.5 miles and it felt wonderful. My knee was fine, I felt good and in shape. I was totally lazy on Saturday though. They didn't have a formal group run and so I slept in and ran errands, did laundry etc.
Today, I got back on track. Because I am just getting back into running since my injury I was a little nervous that I have lost all the distance I had gained. Even though I had three great runs last week. Not the same as getting back up in the miles again.
I decided to run an easy 6.5, easy as in SLOW. I had a great pace the first 4 miles. It really felt awesome. It was about 60 degrees when I went out around 10 am, which was a little warm but even so, very good. I sort of lost steam between the 4-5.5. miles. I didn't stop though, my goal was to do the DISTANCE comfortably and not walk. I picked it up the last half mile. My knee is a tad sore but not bad at all. Actually, my hams and calves are more tight than any thing. I stretched and stretched and plan to do some later as well.
Over all I am very happy and excited to see how I do next week and want to put some of the speed work back in. Nervous however about the next group run, which I think is 8 or 9 miles...I may have to go back a time group until I really build back up the speed. I haven't been to the group in three weeks due to the knee crisis. Then, I can focus on the weight issue. Ah!!! I am trying not to get discouraged, today really helped that!!
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