Very slow. Average heart rate 114. Could feel the fatigue from yesterday so no need to push things and get hurt. Not feeling like I have either the conditioning or the speed to break 25 for a 5k on Sunday., but at least I can do better than 26:45 which is what I ran last 5k. I am one of the luckiest people alive. I have a great family, great job, enough money for everything we need and am healthy enough to still be running. Still it is hard to slow with age. In a week I am running Broad Street. I have run this race off and on for 25 years. I will never again run those carefree low one teens that I ran in my late 20's. I may never again run those high one teens I was so determined to get back to after the twins. I will at least try to stay in the 1:20's where I have managed to stay for the last decade in spite of the other kids, major surgery and this years 2 month long injury and all the other impediments that life puts in front of all of us. I wish I was faster and stronger and had more endurance, but how can I not be happy for all the great years of running with which I have been blessed. |