Notes
70 deg / 47% H / 49 dew pt
(Not a) Easy Run
I felt like I had the Zika virus (if this was last yr it would have been Ebola) because I felt so tired, so beat up, so dead and that it was a struggle (must have stopped 5x?) -- all of my muscles were stressed. When I started out it felt like I was going at 9 min pace - mile 1 was running out to church on Sharon fr Whole Foods, then turned and ran back on Sharon to mall parking lot (this felt slower vs. mile 1), then ran out to Sharon to Walgrens and back. At aroung 2.7 mi had to stop as I felt dead simply from being dead dog tired. Continued on down Sharon, right on Fairview, was purposely shortening stride and attempting to drastically slow my pace as my next goals was to make it 5 miles, meandered in another parking lot, got to BOA on the corner when mile 4 beeped & and then did some loops in the corp park where Zoe's is before I ended up by Panera at 5 miles and subsequently stopped. Felt worse, looked at watch & could not believe how I could be running at ~8:12 pace when this felt so slow (and I was purposely trying to go slow). Felt like I had zero glycogen stores & where I had zero energy and zero will to push (wondered if foregoing dinner did this? or the 1 cookie I had between 2p and 10p? or if I had Zika?). Continued on and could only make it 1k to 5.62 mi before I had to stop again! Then another k to Whole Foods to get my stuff -- and then ran down to Phillips Pl to finish.