This stumps me. (Read 977 times)

Today was my first run back after a severe Gastroenteritis bout' that laid me out for a week. Slow and easy was my goal and if I had to stop and break then fine.. I left and took it nice and easy and I felt really good, only stopped once to adjust my compression shorts underneath my skirt . I was gonna run a little further but decided against it because I did not want to push it my first day back. Got home sat down and looked at my watch and plugged in my numbers.. My pace was a 9:43?!! I am just scratching my head on this one.. As you notice by my log this is not by any means a pace I have done like..um..ever.?? My watch is fine, there is no way I could have hit any buttons by accident and I looked at my clock home here to see when I left and it seems right. How do I log this run? I put cruise but clearly it did not feel like a cruise effort..it felt like an easy run. Just a fluke? Brush it off and move on?

Just be proud I say!!!!! Good job and keep up the good work, maybe all that rest helped you run faster???!!!

I had to take a week off back in high school because of back problems. I came back and ran a PR in the two mile and I believe that was the first time that I broke 5 mins in the mile. My legs were happy to have a rest to heal and I kept improving after that as well. So I think sometimes we just need to stop and give our body a break as hard as that can be. I think you did right in just putting it as an easy because...well..it was obviously fairly effortless to run that pace for you. So good job.

Your log show lots of 3-4 days in a row of running. While very good for lots of reasons, it WILL result in slower paces due to fatigue. By getting sick, you gave yourself an unintentional taper.