Archive for October 18th, 2008

I ran tomorrow’s run this afternoon because I’m going to a bicycle race tomorrow.

Looking at my logs, the last time I ran in the afternoon was way back in May, so that made it a novel run right there.  It was incredibly beautiful; the setting sun on the river along with a cool breeze put me at peace with the world.  Of course, being at peace doesn’t preclude my usual cynical pondering of why so many people run in sweatshirts, pants and multi-layers when it’s 59 degrees, meanwhile I’m sweating in my sleeveless tank, but that’s one of the mysteries of life, I guess.

Anyway, it was truly a special run, I felt strong and lithe, going 5 miles @ 8:49 avg.  I can’t believe how good I feel less than 7 days from the marathon so I’m doing that 10K on Nov. 2nd for sure.  Going to post a question to the Training forum, see if it’s worth it to stick a tempo or interval session in before the race or not push anything.  I’m sure that just because I feel recovered doesn’t mean I am and they say speed sessions don’t “show” until 10 days after, so we’ll see what the general consensus is.

But now it’s time to shower and then pig out with Nick on Indian food, my fave.  Life doesn’t get any better than this.