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ShanHas
I'm excited!
 posted: 6/9/2008 at 9:58 PM
Is it the heat or my legs getting use to running every day? My times seem to be slower then what they were when I was running 3x a week. Do you think it's just because my legs are learning how to run everyday? Or is it that my body needs to get use to running in warm weather?
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backstretch
posted: 6/10/2008 at 12:44 AM
I'd guess your legs are more tired now, try not running as far or as fast. The wiser people on this site say don't worry about speed. I believe them. I was running up to 113 km a week, some weeks, before I switched to running everyday. When I switched I cut down to 60km a week, but ran everyday. I'll probably hit 75km this week and I've got a 70 day streak going. It is a long haul back to 100 but I don't regret giving up the restdays
jeffdonahue
posted: 6/10/2008 at 1:04 PM
Depending how hot it is, it could also be the heat. I ran a long run the other day and at the start, before I got acclimated to the heat and humidity, my pace was off by a good minute per mile.
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ShanHas
I'm excited!
 posted: 6/10/2008 at 2:16 PM
modified: 6/10/2008 at 2:17 PM
So I actually looked back at my log... I don't think i'm slow I think i'm taking recovery days. So some runs are really slow because they are recovery. And it has been getting warmer for example yesterday it was around 100F when I ran. So I think i'm probably not really slower i've just been doing slower runs.

Everything feels good so i'm not really worried about speed I was just wondering if other noticed that their runs got slower, but i'm thinking now that it's just that I HAVE to do slow running for recovery as opposed to taking days off. Does that make sense?
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