6 miles Easy in 47:29 (7:55/mi, avg HR 153). Predictions of good sleep last night did *not* pan out.....I often find that after hard workouts, it's difficult for me to sleep soundly. It's been a fairly consistent phenomena, but I'm not sure what's behind it. In any event, it certainly happened again last night, when I found it tough to get to sleep, and then to stay asleep. I also managed to lose ground to the cold I'm fighting. I'm sure the effort put forth yesterday did me in, but the good news is that the ground I've lost, while present, is minor and didn't really affect me too much today. Feels like I should have gotten rid of this thing completely in a couple of days.
Which made it surprising that I felt good on today's run. Perhaps another lesson I re-learned today helped....start slow (something I understand the Kenyan runners do consistently as well). I seem to have much better runs when I start out at Recovery pace and gradually warm-up into my scheduled pace for the day. Some days it only takes 1/2 a mile, others 2 or 3. Today, it was about 1 and I was feeling good, effort light, but speed well inside the Easy zone, something that's been tough for me lately. So even with a mile in the Recovery pace zone, my average pace was in the middle of my Easy range, and the effort was easy throughout. I need to remember this for all my runs in the future, and I'm sure things will go much more smoothly. Speaking of smoothly, my form felt much more fluid today. Not exactly prime, but much better than it's been the last week or two. My chiro visit early this morning revealed significant progress over the past week alone, which may contribute to getting me back on track. Whatever the case, I'm hopeful it'll stay this way. Finished up with some core exercises and stretching.
Brooks Trance - 311.5 miles.
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