It's Hard to Take It Easy!

One might think that taking it easy is, well, easy.  Wrong!  It's actually harder than you think to slow your roll.  Here's what I mean.  I decided to email Bryan and ask if it mattered whether I did my last long run on Saturday or Sunday (given that the race was going to be on the following Sunday).  He didn't get back to me quite as quickly as I would have liked, so I opted to not run on Saturday and do it on Sunday.  Well, when he did write back, he said that if I ran Sunday, it should be for no more than 2 hours and, here's the worst part, that I should only do 1 more run this week.  Huh?!  (He said if I did the long run on Saturday, then I could do 1-2 runs this week.)  Apparently a day does make a difference.

I ran Sunday and followed his suggestion to a T!  RunKeeper has the proof: 14.89 miles in 2 hours and 3 seconds.  Yesterday, I hit the gym and kept it easy.  Looking back, I don't think I broke a sweat at all.  The idea is to stay moving but not tax my muscles.  (Easier said than done, but I kept reminding myself of that goal.)  Today, I ran before work & kept it at a 9 minute per mile pace for about 95% of my run.  S-l-o-w is what it felt like; again, though, the idea is to move without getting wiped out.  Mission accomplished...I guess.  However, I'm not using this as my one run for the week since it was for barely 54 minutes.  I'll do another slow run; this time, it'll be about an hour & a half.  (Yes, Bryan did say that the run could be 1-1.5 hrs long.)  Perhaps that'll be Thursday's activity.