Recovery Weekend

Wow, another weekend flew right on by! Not much to really report other than continued recovery from marathon week. Legs finally feel pretty good, and started Hal Higdon's marathon recovery program. Took Friday off, met up with Pat and Crystal on Sat. morning to run. Weather was chilly but sunny, and we hit our typical long run route on the Glen Carbon bike trails. Ran the first couple miles with Pat before he turned around, and kept going. Felt pretty good, but we picked up the pace a bit after the 2nd mile. Decided to try a different route, so stayed straight instead of heading up our customary Meridian hill. Trail is pretty flat, but since it is such an open area you feel the effects of swirling winds. Coming back, we were going much faster than I would have liked, and my body wasn't reacting well so made a remark to Crystal, and we slowed down. Found out later we had progressively picked up each mile split, so probably the reason I was feeling like crap. She was definitely in her comfort zone, so good to see one of us was feeling well. Cruised through the next few miles, then really picked it up on the last mile. It's funny, I have the lowest pain tolerance of any human being alive, but with running I can block it out and just go for it. Hit low 6 pace the last half mile, was pretty exhausted. Total mileage: 10 miles - total time out was 1:22, so 8:15ish average pace.

Sunday morning, woke up early and went downtown to watch the Go St. Louis Halloween 10K with Barrel, which runs through downtown. Pretty awesome to spectate and cheer on the runners for once, and very interesting to watch all the runners that dressed up. Barrel and I actually dressed up ourselves - she was a brownie, I was Batman, so we got some interesting looks - lol. Will post a pic later. My teammates at Big River totally dominated the race, and swept both the men and women titles - congrats!!!!

I think I had the lowest mileage total last week (~16 miles) than I had in the last 2 years, but well deserved :) Today, will probably do something easy then hit the track on Tuesday. This week is still going to be run relatively easy, then will transition back to normal schedule the week following.