Life has been catching up to me again, and catching up to my muscles and joints. Where I was tired last week, now things are just starting to hurt or I'm just feeling off. Then there were other complications like weather... lots and lots of wind this week.
The day I was planning on doing one of my shorter maintenance runs the wind decided that it wanted to wreak havoc with everything. I work outside and I was barely able to stay on meet feet at times it seemed. That just turned me off from running because I really didn't need a 5k resistance run. I realized very quickly that while I love running in rain and thunderstorms, enjoy cold runs, and will tolerate hot runs... windy runs I just don't do.
So once postponing my run, my social life decided to actually have plans for once which means it took me a few days to get back into a workout. Finally got on a treadmill yesterday which was interesting. I forgot the challenges that go along with running on treadmills, finding my pace, keeping my pace, etc... I got the hang of it, but it didn't make my knee all that happy. Or my ankles for that matter, but that was my fault as I wore my old running shoes which don't have the best ankle support.
Today I got up and started on my run. I couldn't decide if I wanted a maintenance run or a long run so I just starting. Very quickly I realized a few things... My muscles were sore from the treadmill run, but my pace was faster than ever before. Of course just over a mile in I also rolled my good ankle. The athlete in me kept running, but my brain reminded me not to push it because the last thing I need is old ankle injuries mixing with new ones and causing issues.
So I guess the theme this week was trying to cause issues when last week I was overcoming them. I'll take these hard weeks though, because they make the good weeks that much better.
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