lumps of clay.

I took BD's advice and went for 3 miles today. I did not run the whole thing... I had 3 walking breaks for about 4 blocks each... I needed them, especially the first one. But not because I was out of breath, my breathing fell into the old-familiar comfortable pattern within the first 3 minutes or so. I needed the walk breaks because my legs felt like heavy ass lumps of completely worthless clay. I had to adjust the laces on my right shoe twice because my foot kept going numb, my shins were quite annoyed, my knees (suprisingly) were pretty ok... but my heavy heavy thud-thud stepping legs were just intollerable.

IN FACT - it wasn't until about 2.5 miles INTO the run that they even started to feel like I was running. Prior to that I was sort of shuffling along with a bit of a runners gait... it was probably pretty pathetic to behold. The last half-mile, however, felt pretty damned good. I didn't wear a watch so I don't know how long it took... I'm going to guess around 36-38 minutes tho because I was just that slow.

I'm looking forward to lifting tomorrow, anything other than pounding the pavement or pulling water would be a good thing (tm) at this point.

time for whey at half a turkey sammich.

cheers!

Posted by Lexy at April 11, 2005 12:03 PM