Boring run yesterday. Five treadmill miles at a 9:22 pace to kick off week 3 of marathon training. As usual, I ramped up the incline to compensate for the slowish pace. I'm a late believer of the principle of slowing down to go further, but man it's hard to do. You just feel like a snail and I worry that I'll lose whatever speed I have, which I know was never much to begin with. But then I remind myself it's a marathon and not a sprint and trod on. Har.
Anyway, the highlight of the day was me running any appreciable distance without wearing compression shorts for the first time. I was wearing a pair of shorts with a built-in liner in them, which I've never tried before. It might be hard to believe, but I was really worried about running in them. I'm a dork about dumb things like that. I was just concerned about binding or chafing or riding up or something. As it was, the shorts were great. My mp3 player didn't even bounce around in the pocket. So I know they're good for at least runs up to 5 miles. I'm still not sure if I want to run 14 miles in them this weekend though.
You know it's a slow day and when a runner stretches the bounds of interest by discussing his shorts on his blog. Yeesh.
A slow running information day means more personal information shared? Nice! I think the shorts men are wearing to run in is pretty interesting and as worthy of discussion as the skirts or hairstyles women are wearing to run in, but I'm kind of strange that way. And I worry about what I run in as well and if it works once I tend to run the whole outfit into the ground with wearing it and washing it and wearing it again, until some fluke thing about it bugs me and then it's on to the next set of running clothes. Mostly that's for races though, I tend to try to make things lucky which doesn't always work. Dang, and you thought you were stretching bounds - I'm being a dork and I'm just commenting on a blog. ;-)
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