I ran for 55 minutes today — woo hoo. I did it really slowly though. If I did 4 miles in 55 minutes that’s
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a 13 to 14 minute mile. Hello turtle! So if I kept that pace and did the 1/2 marathon that would be
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about 2 hours and 45 mins. Almost as long as it took me to do that math problem!
I have been running faster, but my legs felt heavy today and JG (Jeff Galloway, not Jesus God) said after a hard run to run more slowly to help aid recovery. Supposedly you’ll get faster in the long run. We’ll see.
I’m off to curl up with my 2 books — naw, I’ll probably just watch the seaon finale of The Bachelorette. Less brain power required. It sounded much smarter to talk about reading before sleep though.