The Good, the bad and the ugly

You know those runs that just seem too good to be true? You wonder if something is wrong with your GPS because the pace you're running is faster than usual but it seems easier than it should. Well those were my runs up until about a week ago. It was great but I knew it wouldn't last and unfortunately last Saturday (the 20th) was that day.

I'd like to think part of it was that I had just done about an hour of strength training and still had some energy left - or so I thought. I was only a few minutes in when my legs felt like bricks and I only managed about 20 minutes, and that was pushing it. I decided to take Sunday off (from running - I rode the bike for about a half hour because we were going to my parents house for Christmas and I knew there would be a ton o'food and I couldn't workout that evening).

I tried running again on Monday...less like bricks, but definitely not much better than Saturday - made it about 15 minutes before my legs decided they were done. Tuesday, same story, shorter run.

I'm hoping these last few sloth-like days (no exercise, lots of high calories meals out with friends and family) gave my legs the recovery they needed. I'm also hoping this isn't the post-marathon "Ha ha, you pushed it too hard so now I'm going to pay you back for running too fast/too soon after the race. "

Cross your fingers and pray to the running gods that that is not the case and I will run better soon because I'm soo going to need it after this holiday.