I found that the day after a hard run my legs hurt and
getting up to any kind of speed is almost impossible. Instead today I decided
to walk and instead of just 30 minutes I figured 40 minutes of speed
walking. It allowed me to get my exercise
in and not do it in pain.
I walked before timing my regular pace just to see what I
walked at, it’s at a little over 20 minutes a mile. So when it came to speed walking I tried to go keep a much faster pace with the
pain. After a hard run the next day my
legs always fell like Jell-O. They are
tired and achy.
I used Run Keeper to keep track of my pace and it ticked
out my pace as always every five minutes.
I just kept chugging along. To my
surprise I really built up a sweat. I
wasn’t expecting that since it wasn’t exactly hot.
In the end I did I walked for 40 minutes doing over 2.2
miles and keeping a 17:47 pace. Not bad,
at least I don’t think it was bad.
Daily Recap:
Matt: 40 minute speed walk
Kelly: TBD
I developed this run theory after looking back at some of
my blogs. There were days were I would
have a really good run, then an okay run, and lastly a crappy day and slow run.
Since I am exercising every day I guess my body needs some really low impact
activity to heal in between the abuse I put it though. I am asking a lot of my
legs to haul this bulk around at close to 5 miles an hour.
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