I usually run three times a week. It’s not the greatest number in the world, but that’s what my plan calls for. On Saturday, not a usual run day, I deviated from the plan and went for a second day in a row… and I did intervals (I think that’s what they would be considered as.), which I read I shouldn’t do until I increase my weekly mileage. It was a shorter run than normal, but I alternated periods of easy–very easy–running with shorter period of faster running (certainly not sprinting, but hard enough to push myself). Afterwards I felt great. Easy running for a straight 25 minutes started to seem a tad bit monotonous because I was afraid of running too fast in the beginning and not being able to keep it up for the whole 25 minutes. This put everything into perspective. And what do you know? Saturday evening I came down with a sore throat. Serves me right.
Because of the sore throat, which I still have, I didn’t go running this morning. However, I felt well enough to run this afternoon. I don’t recommend consecutive runs jumping 18 degrees (F). Okay, maybe that’s drastic just to me, but I really did feel the heat suck all of the energy out of me. Of course, I dressed for the occasion–it was the first time this year that I’ve run in shorts this side of the Atlantic–but it was still brutal. As a result, I cut my run to the same distance as my interval run on Saturday. I didn’t mind because of the heat, and I am battling a sore throat. Another reason to run in the morning: there are no flying, swarming insects congregating around your head at all times!
I’ll see how my soon-to-be cold progresses. If I feel the same on Wednesday as I do today, then I will certainly run in the morning. If I feel worse… well, you know. Rest day.
WordPress.com related, I realized that there is no way to reply to an individual comment, as in, there are no thread-type functions on WordPress.com. So we are expected to browse through all of the blogs that we’ve already read and commented on? A reply notification system would be nice, so commentors could know if the blogger responded to his or her comment. Or maybe I’m just used to LiveJournal. Anyhow, would it be correct to assume that in order to reply to a comment, a proper response would be another comment on that same post? My thanks goes to everyone who has given encouraging comments so far.
