Today was significantly more difficult to run than the past few days. I barely made it through the first mile, and even that wasn’t fast. I walked at 4.0 mph until I crossed 4.0 miles, but felt pretty crappy the whole way.

The time has come for me to get some new shoes. My right foot has started falling asleep during my longer runs. The shoes I have are at least 10 years old now, which is just crazy. It’s not that I’m too cheap to spend the money on some new shoes, I’m just too lazy to go waste time trying on all the different creations that have come out in the past 10 years. If I ever do make it to a shoe store, I’m going to buy 3 or 4 pair so I don’t have to go back for a long time.

So I was content thinking my shoes were the big reason I had such a hard time today, until I logged my progress and realized I had skipped a very important step this morning. I normally drink a Red Bull about 10 minutes before I start my run and I completely forgot to do that this morning. I think that played into the poor performance more than I’d like to admit. I’ll make sure to drink one before running tomorrow.

Time at mile 1.0: 9:12
Time at mile 4.0: 54:12

Push-ups were easy again today, so I mixed it up a little and moved my hands closer together on the final set. That certainly changes which muscles are doing the work. I’ll have to play with that some more in the next few weeks.

Push-ups: 40, 30, 30