With the four days of vacation due to the Thanksgiving holiday - I decided I wanted to make good use of the daylight hours that I could do some exercise with. To start things off, I did my normal 6 mile loop on Thanksgiving morning, before we had to head out to visit people for the holiday.
It was a very quiet run. I started out around 8 AM, and there wasn't much traffic at all. I also didn't bring a water bottle with me. I debated bringing it only because it was a morning run, and in the morning I tend to be somewhat dehydrated. But I had about 30 minutes before setting out to get some gatorade into my system.
Total Time: 57:38
Total Distance: 6 miles
Avg HR: 159
I'm definately noticing some drop off in speed and conditioning. With only running once or twice a week, I would expect this to happen. However, my only goal for the winter season is to maintain distance capability. With only training for 2 months, I can't expect to have a good solid performance base that will stay maintained. As long as I can go into spring being able to run a distance of 13 miles in one shot, I'll be satisfied. It takes a long time to build up distance endurance with the ligaments, cartilege and tendons. So I just dont want to lose that.
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