Today's goal: 1 mile easy, 5 miles run @ tempo pace. I've got the easy part down, except I realized today I was running at around 10'20", which is pretty slow these days for my easy part. But again I struggled with picking up the tempo pace. I was struggling to maintain a sub-10 minute pace, which is fairly far from my tempo pace goal. It was quite toasty today, probably approaching 80, so I'm sure that had something to do with it. And it definitely took at least 3 miles to get my muscles to relax a little.
I'm wondering if my serious dearth of high-cadence cycling these last several weeks (months maybe) is really starting to affect my turnover and speed. I've really got to figure something out or suck it up and go to the gym I don't like.
In addition, the arch pain (plantar fascitis, I assume) in my left foot acted up, so I stopped running at about 5.3 miles. It had been hurting for several miles, but no worse than walking, so I kept going. However it was getting worse and I was worried about altering my stride. Luckily I have an appointment with Rosie tomorrow, and hopefully she will be able to work it out for me. I've had this crop up several times in the past but usually the pain starts after I've stopped running and is solved with only about one ice session.
I also discovered that the Lululemon down the street has a Wednesday night running club and free yoga on sundays. I just might have to check this out.
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