September Starts Stupidly

Started things off with a 7-mile medium paced run on Labor Day. That went pretty well. So the next day I did a treadmill pace trial: 15 minutes easy warm-up, 8 minutes at 9.0 MPH and 2% incline, 15 minutes easy cool down. That middle part worked out to 1.18 miles in 8 minutes for a VDOT of 43 and an estimated 1-mile pace of 6:40.

It was probably a bit faster than I should have gone. My left quad was sore for the two following days. The bigger problem, though, was that I then gave blood that evening. That really seems to have wiped me out. More so than usual. I tried an "easy" 5-miler two days later and it was a disaster. Have to see how I feel in a day or two.