Let Me Gaze Into My Crystal Ball

I see pain. Much pain. There will be soreness in the left quad... soreness in the glutes. I see a possible tightness in the left calf... wait... what is this beyond the mist and fog? More pain.

I did two runs today. Let me talk about them separately...

Run #1 - 6 miles.
This was what I call and "endurance run" - I ran a mile, walked a minute. The purpose was to gain strength and, duh, endurance. Generally, they're slow runs. But today was wonderful (weather-wise) and I had a great run, averaging 13:06 mile. I ran straight to Jamba Juice afterwards for a cool-down smoothie and easily could've done another loop around Rice, but decided not to.

(In between run #1 and run #2, I worked on school stuff, went to the movies and saw "Failure to Launch," which was hysterical, read some more of a captivating novel I'm reading and then wandered around Barnes and Noble for a while.)

Run #2 - 3.22 miles (yes, I ran 9.22 miles today!!)
This is where the pain comes in. This run was a Team In Training Tuesday night speed run. We get there and I run three laps around the track to warm up. No problem. Then the pain comes in. We do walking lunges, bunny hops, high kicks, stretching, etc. I know from experience that the lunges will be the cause of some pain. After the exercises, we started to do a fartlek-type training. We walked 1 minute, ran fast 30 seconds, walked another minute, ran fast 60 seconds, walked another minute, ran 90 seconds, walked another minute, ran 120 seconds, and then we'd start all over. We did that for about 26 minutes. I ran my ass off. Even with the many minutes of walking a mile, I averaged below 12 minute miles. Some legs were 9 minute miles (usually the 30 second legs). My lungs still hurt. My right quad is sore and something felt like it snapped in my left calf, so there might be a bit of pain tomorrow.

We shall see. For now, it's time for dinner and then the bed!

Cheers!