GREAT RUN ON A DAY I FELT RUN DOWN

I went out for a run this evening after spending the whole day on the road. One thing I did not realize when I took the job as a high school principal was how much time we spend traveling from one meeting to another. Today I spent 4 hours on the road.....this makes me very tired. Not to mention, I was up every hour on the hour last night as my 3 year old had a 10 minute nap on the way home from the shopping mall, which meant he was good to go until 4:00am.....OUCH.

So, one would think that today's run would be grueling. Nothing could be further from the truth. I set out to get in 5 and I ran 7. I took my trusty IPOD with me and listen to the latest podcast from STEVERUNNER....and he started talking about doing intervals and that got me wondering if I might feel better if I spiced things up a bit on today's run....so I did. I ran 6 of the 7 miles running a FARTLEK workout....finished my normal run about 4 minutes faster than average and I felt better than I have in a long run.

Probably my best run since my illness 2 1/2 weeks ago.
Next BIG run on the horizon is a race with my father-in-law....the JACKFROST 5K.