Um, I had a bit of an attack at the end of my run today.
But beyond that, I did 9.84 miles after work today. I started just past 9pm and went from my home, over Queensboro Bridge, and around Central Park. I had originally set the ambitious goal of running 15.5 miles, but the attack kept me from surging any more forward, plus my training schedule only suggests 10 miles. Dark, 64 degrees, cool, and perfect fall-like weather. My legs felt as if they were flying. Here are the deets:
The hill that is the bridge was easier for me to deal with today. I definitely felt faster, which might have been symptomatic of the dark, but felt more symptomatic of the Saturday hill work in my long run. My time doesn’t really reflect the faster time, nor does the map which should have shown the numerous stops for red lights I had to make along East 60th Street. From the animated playback of my run, it seems I covered 8 miles in 1:00:20, which is okay though still a bit slower than I want to go.
Before the run I had ArginMax and quercetin, both of which I’ve been having fairly regularly but forgetting to mention in my blog posts. I’m not entirely sure what brought on my attack, though I have some ideas.