My goal after the Half was to not push myself back into running. And I was good the first week, although I did run a 3 mile training run with Jimmy and then walked the Komen Race for the Cure. But I have been getting a little more aggressive than I had planned.
Last week I broke 15 miles (and would have done more had the trails not been under water and I wasn't tired from dealing with leaky basement on Friday.) But I said I would take it easy this week. Then this run happened:
Yep, cranked out 4+ miles and didn't really feel it. Then today all this talk between Jimmy and his uncle about who will win the upcoming Denver Symphony race got into me as I ran, speeding me up. But no worse for the wear so I guess I will just keep letting my body dictate how far I can run. Which means that I will likely be back over 20+ mile weeks sooner than I thought. But again, just letting my body dictate things.
Which does lead to my next subject, it's that time again, time for new shoes! The Hoka's were great, I'm over 450 miles in them. But I don't think that they were so different from my minimalist Reeboks, at least not enough to justify the cost. When I can get pretty much the same mileage from 2 pairs of Reeboks for less than the price of 1 pair of Hokas. And I know from testing that my feet can handle either shoe type. And, most importantly, I do not have any intention of trying to ramp up to a marathon next year, I just don't have the training time in my schedule. So it is back to the Reeboks for me.
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