I only walked once today. I ran the first 2 miles without switching from running to walking. That’s the longest I’ve gone without switching, so I was happy. I kept telling myself that I may run the whole thing without ever switching to walking, but I finally did when I got to the last big hill around the 2 mile marker. I was pretty beat-up by the time I gave up and switched to walking, so when I switched back to running at the top of the hill, it was very slow. In fact, it’s pretty generous to even call it running; it was more shuffling than running. But it wasn’t walking, and that was important.

I finished in 35:56, which is slower than yesterday’s “good” run, but still faster than any other run I’ve done this year. So I’m quite happy with the time.

The thing I’m not as happy about is my legs. When I finished running, they were in pain. They didn’t hurt while I was running, not even the last few steps of the run, but as soon as I stopped running, they hurt. I stretched out a bit and felt a lot better, but I was really hoping they would feel as good as they did yesterday. Oh well. I probably won’t run tomorrow, so they should have a chance to recover.