I had this brilliant idea to do my "long run" today instead of tomorrow, since we're thinking about riding the Gunlock loop on our bikes tomorrow. My regular training schedule has me doing eight miles tomorrow, but it doesn't take into account the fact that I just ran a marathon and am supposed to be in recovery. So I decided I would just run the 6 miles up to bootcamp this morning, and call it good. I talked Britnee into joining me, and we left an hour before bootcamp was supposed to start. Well, first I forgot to close the front door when I left, so we had to go back and close it...which cost us an extra .55 mile. Then I realized that my legs were SO tired, I couldn't make them go faster than a 9 minute pace! Plus, the entire way there is uphill, with a STEEP hill at the end of the run. I could barely walk it by the time I got there. And it was a tiny bit farther than I had anticipated. So in the end, we ran 7.35 miles, and it took us 1:22:49....WAY longer than I had planned. I have no idea how I'm going to pull off a 50-mile bike ride tomorrow. :( |