Knocking Down the Wall

Distance: 2 miles
Time: 18:47

Things finally took a turn for the better tonight. My 2 mile times have been horrid lately, mainly due to some back pain brought on by playing basketball over the weekend. But today my back felt great and I felt much more ready and willing to run than I have in almost a week. To illustrate, since last Friday my 2 mile times have been 21:16, 21:43, and 22:27. I really shouldn't be running 2 miles in over 20:00... at all. But, again, my body lately has been aching and stiff all over and I just couldn't get any sort of quick pace going at all. But all that changed tonight.

I made a conscious effort to quicken my pace right away tonight. With my back feeling good I was able to get a fluid rhythm going, and I took advantage of it. Since increasing my mileage on June 21, my fastest 2 mile was 19:18. But I blew that out of the water tonight with an 18:47. My mile split was around an 8:50, which means my second mile was pretty slow, but I really pushed it for the first mile. There is definitely still a lot of soreness in my legs, which never seems to want to go away. But everything else felt great tonight. And it was surprising because I usually rest on Sundays, but because of a busy weekend I had to run Sunday, which means tonight was my third straight distance run, so I wasn't expecting tonight's run to be the fastest.

Tomorrow I run 1 mile and then I rest on Thursday. Hopefully I can do some major recovering over the next couple of days and come back better than ever on Friday.