Much easier run than Monday. Better diet and a few new pre-run stretches seem to have helped with the pain. My muscles were fairly loose by the end of the warm up and my shins didn't hurt when I started running, which they have been for a week or so. Since the run was basically painless from the get go, that made the whole thing a lot better. I spent some time thinking about my stride, but after about 2 minutes, my mind started to wander aimlessly. Next thing I knew, the voice was telling me to walk. Pretty much the same thing happened on the second 10 minute run. Hopefully it will be that way on Friday when I do the 25 minute run. It was so much easier to run when my brain was thinking about everything but running.
Since my run today was two 10 minute intervals, I decided that my goal was to do two sub 10 minute miles. Based on gmap-pedometer, I managed to accomplish that goal. Granted, I barely squeaked in under 10 for both of them, but I did it. I wondered if I should have mapped out checkpoints for the run so I'd know if I was maintaining pace,it's probably best that I didn't. I don't run with a watch anyway so not like I could have checked the time to see if I was maintaining the pace. I'm not that worried about speed yet anyway, it was just a milestone for me.
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