I cut loose today!

I started my run pretty slow, not too fast, but I was not going very slow either, in about the 9:00 min mile range. I was running on grass to keep the impact down, and I think this has been helping. But after about half a mile I realized that my body was feeling great. So I guess yesterday's rest day was a good thing.

I then started to speed it up a little bit. By the time I reached my first mile my stopwatch said 8:00. I felt I could do better. Next split was 7:32. Then I started to head back into the wind, and damn it was windy, the flags were almost horizontal and I was running right into it. And I'll be damned if I was going to put up a slower split, this had been turned into an impromptu temp run. The split for mile 3 was 7:11. Ok, I was getting bit tired, but I had to run about another half mile before I held up. By this time I was out of the wind, and cruised in to my apartment at 4 miles, with the last split of 7:59.

Overall it was a good run, I did run pretty hard, and considering the wind I think I did pretty good. I have lost some from the last 5k I ran, but I don't think it would take too much to get it back. On a side note I was wearing my heart rate monitor today, and it registered an average HR of 163, so yea. I was moving!

We'll see how I fell tomorrow, but I think I might do some LSD of about 5 miles, and then get ready for 10 on Sunday. I hope, hope, hope, hope that I am ready to go and resume my program at 100%!