Raced the @tracksmith Twilight 5000 last night at Kezar Stadium in SF, went 18:01 (5:48 per mile). That's a new over 40 running era best for me.

After some non-running, legs tired but held it together. Still feeling the Connecticut College Invitational cross country meet (Harkness Park, CT) where I definitely put in some tempo work running around that course. Back in Chesapeake, site of too-hot training crime last month.

Flying out to New England on Friday. Catch the D3 Conn College Invitational Saturday at Harkness Park. “The walks will continue until morale improves.”

Iron test results back, and iron/ferritin is fine. So the remedy is to stop running for a little while. Legs got overly hammered in the 80+ degree humidity in Virginia, and I needed to space out the recovery more. Now I have to pay for it. 😭

A tale of two heart rates. First 3 miles were fine (117, 125, 124 bpm), then it spiked a bit last two miles (130, 132 bpm). Legs altered with background soreness. Note: got blood drawn for iron test today.

Shout out to the Chicago Marathon runners today. A bit warm but some nice times regardless. For me, legs still ain’t right. Soreness crept in on this run, HR high at 131. Probably time to get iron checked.

Chicago Marathon, locked in (for tracking runners).

Legs a little tired but not bad. Could be that deep fatigue thing, could be DOMS from a couple days ago. This run felt pretty easy, not a strain. The HR of 130 surprised me.

Legs felt best they have in past couple weeks. Quads weren’t stiff and sore. Fingers crossed deloading is working.

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Got a new Garmin 265S, for more accurate distance tracking. And it has the built-in music function. Loaded a Spotify playlist and cranked out this run. Good for my leg fatigue? Probably not. 😛

You know that saying, "Feed a cold, starve a fever." I always interpreted that as, take care of yourself when you have a cold, otherwise it'll get worse. But apparently it is two separate pieces of advice. As in, don't eat when you have a fever. But do eat when you have a cold.

Quads with some stiffness after yesterday’s test run. Opening mile it was a clear effort to push on them, but then things loosened up.

Deliberately started just a little faster on this one. I wanted to get a sense of the legs’ condition. Quads still have some stiffness but they seem better. Also I seem to enjoy runs in GG Park more than Lake Merced.

Legs felt a bit tired today. Hard to know if that’s just a normal reaction to yesterday’s run after two days off or the deeper fatigue is creeping in again. Tomorrow’s run makes that call. Good low HR at least.

Thursday morning after Wednesday’s 5 x 1600 workout, my legs were fried. Sore, stiff, bleh. My guess is the heat running in Virginia was tougher on me than I realized. I relented and took the past two days off. Easy today, but of course it was a hot one at 81 degrees.

6:22, 6:25, 6:27, 6:27, 6:25 with 60 sec recovery. Legs actually started out feeling better. But then they fell off and “logged” up a fair amount. Still a decent workout.

Legs still suck, but a little better. Any mild downhill makes the quads scream. Played the San Francisco microclimates: western part of city 6-8 degrees cooler.

4:00, 4:00, 3:59, 3:58, 4:00, 3:59, 3:59, 3:55 with 60 sec recovery. Legs, especially quads, sore and stiff. Eased the pace on these. My experiment in “training through it” continues.

As someone who broke his collar bone into three pieces from a bike fall, I feel this.