Slow and Steady 6k

I had another treatment with the good doctor this afternoon, after spending the entire day in meetings, which meant dress shoes. Whenever possible, I try to avoid wearing these things and you'll normally find me roving around the office in socks, but when meetings are in store I have to put on an air of professionalism, or some such thing.

Anyway, the treatment was good, and by that I mean painful. Although I can't notice a difference, he says my hip flexibility has already improved. I hope that this leads to less pain in the foot, especially by Sunday.

As far as running goes I have decided to really scale it back this week and ran a short and slow 6k tonight. I will probably not run again until Thursday, moving my reagular Wednesday 5k to that evening given that I won't be running on Saturday before the race. Although I am not deluding myself into thinking that I have trained nearly enough to require a taper, I am going to do some taper-like things anyway. My swims I think I will cut down, and perhaps will not do weights at all, or maybe just once. This way I should have lots of energy on Sunday.

The run was super easy, with my average HR at 133bpm, max drift to 144. I didn't look at the Garmin as often as I usually do, but was pleasantly surprised that my pacing was pretty steady, even with navigating sidewalk traffic through much of my route.

1. 6:04
2. 5:54
3. 6:04
4. 5:58
5. 5:55
6. 6:01

Total time: 35:58
Average pace: 5:59

Garmin don't lie.


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