running log - 1/25/06

4 miles with darrin

i'm considering this week to be somewhat of a taper, so last nite, which is normally a medium distance run, was cut to only four miles. it was a little cool and i ran in long pants for the first time since before christmas. darrin and i did our standard out and back into illinois to the railroad tracks. the pace was decent and we finished in 35:42/8:56.

for some reason, i still didn't feel great. i don't know that i'd call it struggling, but i definitely didn't feel as strong as i had been feeling the last week or so. i'll have to take it easy on tomorrow's run. speaking of tomorrow, it will be the last run before my little half marathon on saturday. in one sense, it's kind of exciting, but in another, i also know that it spells the end of my training for a while. it's going to be so depressing to be unable to run. i still worry about how bad my fitness will be when i'm finally able to run again. i guess there's just some things that are out of my control. dwelling on it won't help. ..sigh..