Last year when compression socks were really getting popular, was a tough time for me. I was not able to run, but I was still deceiving myself that any day it would just miraculously get better. I had to have the socks. I bought them, and they have sat in my closet for over a year now. Well yesterday I tested them out (yes I was one of those intense people who wear the socks to look fast and serious... I mean for their superior blood flow capabilities...!) I put my new socks on and away we went:
I met up Rhys, and he had some brand new shoes:
We went down to the seawall I was going to 12km and he was up for 10km. This year I am being very cautious with the running volume and intensity, as I am definitely not all better. So I alternate long run and tempo run on the weekends and try for Vfac longer intervals once along with as many easy little runs as I can, usually two.
So Rhys was dragging his feet: "Susanne let's just skip our run and eat muffins and toblerone chocolate." But I convinced him to start a little warm up, nice and easy, lots of people passed us and Rhys was calling out: "Hey, we're only warming up here, we are going to be running really fast soon!"
We started, there was a bit of a head wind, we were heading from 2nd beach pool to the bathing lady. My first kilometre = 4:05, tooo fast Susanne, I wanted to be between 4:10-4:15. The rest of the splits were all around 4:12, which was slower than my last tempo run, and since it also didn't feel as smooth, I figured just not my day for great running, maybe a bit tired. Rhys had a good one too and so we did a little cool down and went and had coffee and muffins, well actually I had a couple of carrott sticks and Rhys had brownies and soda. No wonder he's so huge!
Thanks Rhys, see you next weekend for our long EASY run.
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