After going too hard yesterday, today’s plan was to run an easy five miles on the treadmill at 7:30 pace, and I stuck to it. My left leg still felt pretty tight when I first started, but it loosened up pretty quickly and feels much better now. I am taking the weekend off from running as usual, so I should be back to 100% by Monday (hopefully). This soreness was also a pretty good reality check for me—it’s like, oh yeah, running a lot of miles is hard on your legs. Once I start marathon training I will definitely be spacing out the long runs, so hopefully it won’t be too much of an issue. 26 miles over four runs, all faster than my marathon goal pace—I’ll buy that for a dollar.
The only other noteworthy thing is I gave away my Garmin Forerunner 205 to a random person from Letsrun.com today. I just got sick of it always taking so long to pick up satellite signals, and I ordered a Garmin Forerunner 35 to replace it. It’s another fairly bare bones watch, but I guess with the newer technology it picks up satellite signals much faster. Supposedly it’s also pretty good at keeping track of treadmill runs as it has a built in accelerometer (and thus, I returned the footpod I bought a few weeks ago, which costed nearly as much as my new watch). I should get the new watch sometime next week—will let you know what I think about it when I do.
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