Actually it doesn’t surprise me too much that I felt so sluggish today. This was my third run in a row. When I am getting back into running I like to run several days back to back in order to establish the habit of running. I have done this several times when restarting running and it has worked really well. The runs don’t need to be long hard runs, it is just the consistency of doing X days in a row that helps to establish the habit. This was the third run in a row and fifth out of the last six days. I think I have normalized my habit enough for now! Tomorrow I will take a break.

I went back to the new shoes today with my orthopedic inserts. They are heavy and that added to my tired legs (either that or my tired legs added to the heaviness!) The run went well, but I was dragging towards the end and even considered cutting it short. I ended up doing my full base run on 5.75. It was funny the run felt really slow, but ended up not being slow at all when I checked my time. Weird.