My legs were sore yesterday. I started talking about possibly taking a few days off from running to let my legs recover. I thought I was serious, but somehow I found myself running again today. I didn’t particularly want to run today, and I especially didn’t want to push myself too hard. It is absolutely beautiful outside today, and I wanted to spend some time outside enjoying it. I thought about taking a ride on my scooter instead of doing my daily run. I thought about just walking the route to enjoy the great weather. But in the end I decided to run.

I started off slowly and never really picked up the pace. I kept telling myself that I didn’t have to run too hard, because I was going to run the whole loop again today, and that would make up for not going fast. I knew that wasn’t the ideal situation, but I figured it was fine, since I was at least out there running. I kept thinking the loop will get easier each time I do it. I don’t think I realized how much truth there was in that thought until I finished and looked at my time.

31:15

How did that happen? I didn’t run hard. I didn’t push myself. I barely even picked up the pace for the home stretch. So how did I get my best time yet? I’m still a bit confused about it. Maybe I should just go through the motions more often?