Achy Breaky... Legs!

OOOOOOH man. I know I ran 20 miles already and that was pretty uneventful (surprisingly) but I just got done with 21 miles and WHO KNEW I would be so wiped out from that one itty bitty mile! I'm laying in bed writing this and don't plan on moving from here for at least the next couple hours. Unfortunately I'll eventually have to go forage for food. It's mostly my hips that just feel 80 years old. That, and the bottoms of my feet are pretty wiped out. After I finished my run I still had another 2.5 miles or so to walk in order to get home. Coulda taken the subway, but it was a GORGEOUS day and I also felt rather disgusting to be in such close proximity to other (clean) people. The cute boy at the terrace cafe I go to for orange juice after these long runs (ok fine, Ive only been there once before) wasn't there today (sad face). Though Im sure my ultra-sweatiness/smelliness would not have gotten me far anyways. But the orange juice was still delicious and refreshing! I stretched for a while on the grass overlooking the water. So nice.

I felt pretty good for the most part... tried to go a little faster in the beginning, but by the middle I was tired enough that I just focused on keeping a steady pace. Last 3 miles (as always) were when it got tough, but the last half mile actually went fairly quickly surprisingly.

ALSO, I went back today to see how I've been doing overall on keeping to the schedule, and was SO sadly surprised to see that I've actually skipped a LOT. I think I've gotten most of the long runs in there, but seems like most weeks I've switched things around and skipped at least one run. My bike trip was a big cause of that, which isn't too too horrible since I was getting a lot of exercise in through that anyway, but DANG. I need to stick with it a little better from now on. Here's the two schedules side by side of what was planned and what was actually done. Eek!

So as usual, I'm pretty behind on my logging, so here's a reverse order summary:

Sunday, September 20

Time: 3:23'38"

Pace: 9:41 min/mi

Distance: 21.01 mi

September 19

Time: 1:01'14"

Pace: 8:42 min/mi

Distance: 7.03 mi

September 15

Time: 44'31"

Pace: 8:52 min/mi

Distance: 5.01 mi

September 13

Time: 56'15"

Pace: 9:14 min/mi

Distance: 6.09 mi

September 12

Time: 37'03"

Pace: 9:07 min/mi

Distance: 4.05 mi

Okay thats all for today!! Gonna try and get some speed work in soon. Really wanna work up to those 10 800 repeats. Eek!!