Normally we ride our bike trainers on Monday nights, but we didn’t ride last night. I wondered if that would have much impact on my run today. I think it did.

32:21

That’s a new personal best for the second day in a row. Every Tuesday prior to this has been a couple minutes slower than my Monday run, so I’m chalking this up to not spinning last night. That doesn’t mean I’m glad that we didn’t spin. I think we need to spin more often than we are, so I’ll make sure we hit the bikes tonight, and tomorrow will be a nice day off.

Although I ran the exact same loop today and although I only walked the exact places I walked yesterday, it was a very different run. Yesterday was light and easy. Today was heavy and hard. Yesterday the roads were dry. Today they were covered in snow. Nothing hurt during or after the run yesterday. Today I was pretty tight and sore when I got home.

But I still had a big smile on my face as I crested the final hill and knew I would make it the rest of the way home. I guess it wasn’t all that different after all.