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AtomThis has been the best week of running I’ve had since last year October. I managed to run every day of the week for a weekly total of 27 miles.
I ran a long run of 5 miles on Sunday and then ran 4 miles each of the next 5 days. I was a bit undecided as to whether or not I should run today, or take a rest day. I like the fact I had run for seven consecutive days when I include last week Saturday, and in the end, I decided to do a short 2-mile run today to keep my streak alive. I wanted today’s run to be a very slow recovery run so I asked my 6 1/2 year old daughter if she wanted to go running with me. To my surprise, she agreed and was actually excited about it. I have never run with her in the past, but I knew it would definitely force me to run slowly.
I decided to run the first mile with her, doing a loop in such a way that I could have dropped her back home and then go on to do my second mile. It was great running with her and she was a real trooper. She managed to run the full mile without having to walk. I am so proud of her. All I could think about was the first time I went running and could barely managed 60 seconds at a time. As expected, we took 13 mins to run the mile, but it was nice and slow.
I’m looking forward to many more runs with her in the future.
Posted by derek as Training at 12:52 PM PST