PRR

Great run with the Pacific Road Runners tonight. Those guys really get going, and I am not even running with the fast group.

I had one of the those way-too-busy days, with piles of work, and errands, and phone calls, which just left me wanting to tell the world to go away and leave me alone. And I wasn't even looking forward to the run. It had morphed into something else I had to do. Plus the day off yesterday had left me feeling kind of stiff today, with a little bit of soreness starting to appear in my Achilles that had been gone after my long run on Sunday.

But then I got out there, and after the warm up, and after the first faster km, it started to feel good. And as we went further and faster it felt great. I'm bummed out that I forgot to wear my heart monitor, because it did not feel like work tonight, and I'd be curious to know if the numbers lined up with that.

After having to push so hard to maintain pace in the last 5 k of my 15 k run on Saturday, where I was only doing 4:46 to 4:54 minute kms, I was starting to wonder if 4:30 would ever feel natural. Tonight I felt like I could have kept running between 4:30 and 4:45 forever. I think that, if I am really going to own this thing, I am going to have to start exploring the territory on the other side of 4:30.