In either case, a mile warm up is required, so I decided to postpone my decision until midway through the warm up. Not even a quarter of a mile into it I knew I would opt for redemption. My legs felt fine, though a bit sore from Monday night’s cross training efforts that was double teamed by Power and Cycle classes. The problem was my upper body. The weight of my relatively new muscles developed from Power felt extraordinarily heavy, and unwilling to assist in my running efforts. So I just buckled down, cranked up the Iced Earth, and tried to keep up with the human conveyor belt.
I was surprised to find for the majority of the run, I had kept my heart rate within 85%. It felt like I was working a lot harder because my upper body actually felt like a heavy load, so it wasn’t a cruising tempo run at all. It was more of hauling tempo run. By the end of it, I was completely drenched in sweat, which actually made me VERY cold within seconds of dismounting the conveyor belt.I felt completely drained, not unlike the way I felt after the nine miler at 9:34. That was still the hardest run I’ve had this year, but I did feel as though a chunk of my mid section was missing after the tempo run last night.
Given the circumstances, I had set my alarm for another early morning run without any real intentions on actually doing it. Well, I did this morning. I’m glad and pleased with myself that I did.
And tonight … we go back to Power with Debby, the Queen of Drills. The past couple of weeks, her drill of choice was the clean and press. I wonder what it’s going to be tonight.
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