I was feeling a little nauseous this morning and convinced myself that I didn't need to go on a run even though I felt better right when I normally start running. So I sat around at home until I was about to have a morning nap around 10:30 and looked at this site. Felt guilty and checked the temperature and pulled off an 8 mile run. I did something of a tempo run yesterday, and did more of a Fartlek today. Same course, but backwards. Warmed-up for 2 miles or so and started striding out to 5:30-6:30 pace. It was a bit uneven pacewise, but I would stride for two lamposts and jog for three lamposts. Halfway through the fourth mile I had to "take care of business" and finally discovered a useful purpose for tamarisk trees, if you know what I mean. This break let my breakfast and yesterday's miles catch up to me and I dealt with quite the stomachache for the rest of the run. (Only reason I mentioned my break) I'll be participating in an "active recovery" run tomorrow rather than a "passive recovery." This site has helped me so much. Thank you Sasha, you are definitely my running hero. I look at your blog entries whenever I'm feeling down about my running and see what can be done if I just go out and work.
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