Today I surprised myself. I started off today’s run in powerful late-morning sunshine and temperatures between 90 and 92 wanting to stop after just a half mile. I worked on my brain (the mind is bigger thing to train than the legs), telling myself just to pace myself. Somehow I settled into a pace that powered me for 11.01 miles. Whoa. Pace was key. Also what was key was that the film Premium Rush was filming, and I wanted to do a second lap to say hi again to some of my friends working it who saw me the first time around. I did two sans loops (which I’ll now maybe call “lesser loops”), plus I ran just past the entrance to the N/Q/R train on Central Park South to get a full 11th mile. Here are the deets:
My body was definitely taxed by the heat, but nothing seemed to ail me. Only one person passed me and there were few people running in the park. At 90-92, it was damn hot, about 10 degrees hotter than I expected! I ended up losing about 5 lbs., getting down again to 170 lbs. after the run. I didn’t know how many miles I’d do today, though my training schedule said to do 10 miles. I’m not really back on track, but it’s nice that I got that in.
I forgot to have my ArginMax and quercetin today, but I had a Gatorade 01 bar about an hour before running. After the run, I made a scrumptious smoothie with 40g of protein, plus yogurt and peanut butter for added protein.
Quite an accomplishment to pull off this today, as well as 3 days in a row. In the last 3 days, I’ve done 34.88 miles.