Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Slow Recovery Day

I'm taking a break from writing the final draft of my senior semiar paper entitled:

"Quantitative Verification of the Which-Way Experiment Using Single Photons"

Phew.

anyways once I am done I just might post a link incase any of you physics geeks feels like reading up on my pittiful undergraduate research that just re-does what people with higher degrees than me have already done to more accuracy than me 10 years ago.

But back to running. Today was a slow run, a recovery run and I milked it for all it was worth. I was running close to 10:00 min miles as my body was a bit fatiqued from my weekend's runs. But I did not mind as who cares about times during a recovery run. Plus I need to keep those nagging injuries from coming back.

I guess the one thing about recovery runs that really suck is that most of my friends know I am a serious hard core fast runner, and while I am out plodding along at a very un-me like pace, I happen to see one of my good friends. Now the question I must ask is why can't they ever drive/walk by when I am doing speed work?!?! They are probably thinking to themselves "pfft, I bet he can't even run a 8:00 min mile, he's just full of hot air"

I guess perhaps that is extra motivation to do well at this weekends 5k. So when I see that person next, they will invariably say "I saw you running." and I can say, "Oh yea, that was pretty slow for me, this weekend I ran a X:XX 5k" and then they go Ok and don't think of me as some big liar, and instead just some arrogant prick who has to tell them their 5k times. I'm screwed either way.

Tommorow is a 9x Hill run. I'm excited to get back into that! And please somebody drive by! :P

1 comment:

Mr.Cheapo said...

LOL thats a funny observation. Don't give your friends to much credit on there speed judgement skills (unless there runners) as I have been seen running by a few of my very out of shape friends and they think I'm fast. 12 minute miles is hardly anything to be proud of..but I guess its pretty relitive considering there in a CAR and your not...keep up the good work.