This morning was a 5-mile run and I toured my neighborhood. Started after 8am, so there was still some humidity, but there was cloud cover so I didn't get the full effect of the sun. As a comparison between this weather and Boston, I lost more than 2 minutes (!) off of my mile split from the last time I did a 5-mile run. Yeesh. Also, I didn't stretch as well as I might have liked yesterday after the Florida Death Run, mainly because everywhere I looked, there was a lot of bugs. Frequently, several varieties in one spot. So I decided to take a pass on doing a thorough stretch following the run.
This week marks the start of a new training program, one that has me running only 4 days a week: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. The purpose of the previous plan was to get my mileage back up and I'm having no issues physically with a total of 17 miles per week. So onto the 'real' plan now, which starts with 19 miles. The general guideline for increasing mileage is no more than 10% per week or else you might get injured, which is why I wanted a month to settle back into running a normal amount. Time to start progressing toward the big numbers!
Today also marked the last day that my 'long' run was 5 miles. Next week's long run is 6 and we just go up from there. Hence the title of this post.
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