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March 09, 2006
The Day Before Friday
Thursdays are one of my favorite days of the week. It's the day before Friday. Now Fridays are nice, but I usually like Thursday better. Maybe it's because Thursday is my running Friday. Since I take Friday off from running that is like my weekend so this is the end of the running week, even though my mileage goes from Monday to Sunday. In all honesty, once I get through Tuesday the week is good. Mondays aren't even that bad since you can talk about the weekend. Tuesday and Wednesday are the hardest days of the week.
So, there wasn't too much running going on again today. It was another strange weather day since it was almost 65 degrees out. This is the first winter that probably involved wearing shorts more than tights. Anyhow, it was track night (actually hills, but most of us weren't doing the hills). I ran the warm-up really slowly with J since he was at the back of the pack and gossiped with him. We did a lap on the track and then went down to the hills. People who aren't racing this weekend did the hills and the rest of us did striders along the flat portion for 20 minutes.
In a nutshell, my legs felt like crap. This always seems to happen when I think that the workout should be really easy. It also happens the day after a massage and having the evil elbow working in my butt. By Sunday my legs should feel great, but the massages I get really affect me the next day. The striders felt much harder than they should have but the recoveries didn't feel too bad. We ran up to the track and did a mile on the track to finish off the warm-down. After that I walked two laps with J to talk about this weekend. I guess that I got about 6.5 to 7 miles in, but I'm trying to not worry about mileage at all this week.
Posted by Blondie at March 9, 2006 08:16 PM
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i hear you on the day after the massage. i have to time them so they don't impact my running schedule. the first day i am cursing myself for shelling out money for the experience, but i usually have a smile by day two.
Posted by: matt at March 10, 2006 03:44 PM