In runningspeak, LSD refers not to a drug. Instead, it refers to “long, slow distance,” that long run you do weekly as your train for a marathon. I was unable to get in my 20-miler last weekend because of work, so I set out to log 20 early this morning. I did 16.01 miles instead, mostly because I was having some gastric distress but also because I was slowed down, probably because of the comfortable humidity and the wet weather around me. I did feel a whole lot better having squeezed in this run after wrapping late on Nurse Jackie, with a mid-morning calltime for the show today. Up at 5:30am and left my apartment at 6:12am. Here are the deets:
As you can tell, I only did 8:05s. I felt I was running better than that but not exceptionally fast. My legs felt pretty good though I did tire at some point in the run. I crossed the Queensboro Bridge in the dark but didn’t get to make it back because I finished where I could subway home.
After, I went to Duane Reade and picked up their Code Blue recovery drink and a GABA drink. I made an egg-on-a-bagel to take to work, where I had that and Fage yogurt. I ate generally well today, which was nice for a change. I took 2 ibuprofen to deal with sore Achilles tendons. While they were uncomfortable a little bit, they didn’t flare up like the left one did last week.
In the battle between LSD and Nurse Jackie, LSD won.