“Today felt a little slow, even for me,” I said, as I sat down with the group at the end of this morning’s trail run.
I ran the Lakefair Half Marathon in Olympia, Washington, last week when the wife and I were on vacation up in the area, and I ran it pretty hard (finished in 2:03, a pretty big jump over my previous best time). I took most of this week off to recover except for one short, low-intensity run that ended up being cut even shorter than I’d planned because of a dust storm that came rolling in.
I felt like I hadn’t done well this morning because I wasn’t fully recovered. When I got home, I decided to check my times from the last several runs I’d done out on that trail (the San Tan/Goldmine loop out at San Tan Mountain Regional Park) to see how much I was off today. Here’s what I found:
| Date | Pace |
| 04/18/15 | 12:22 |
| 06/20/15 | 13:52 |
| 06/27/15 | 13:02 |
| 07/11/15 | 12:27 |
| 07/25/15 | 12:03 |
So yeah, I really hit the nail on the head there.