Today was definitely time for a recovery run. We planned out a five mile run that was relatively easy. Even though we both said, “lets go slow, its a recovery run” we started out at a pretty fast pace. It was my route and I was really bad at giving out directions, my poor running partner kept having to double back (so she probably ended up with more miles!) I was really sort of out of it this morning though I feel much better now all showered and surrounded by various morning drinks: coffee, metamucil and crystal lite (Um, what? It was the only sweet thing I had to mix with it in an effort to firm up…) and green drink + protein. Not very happy about the metamucil thing, we’ll have to see how it goes. Aren’t we all excited to find out?

So the run was really nice but we both were feeling the effects of the epic run yesterday especially on the hill out of Reed. But we did manage to do our “one step per square” on the last block after doing the San Francisco tiny hill step out of campus. When we finished both of us looked at our time of 53:10 and were disappointed. We couldn’t possibly have been running slower than 10 minute miles. My watch said 5.93 miles, but it is a notoriously exaggerator. What had happened is we decided not to stop at the cafe in interest of time, so we cut out the loop that we added to allow us to do the cafe stop. I thought that it was even, but it turns out not so and we actually did 5.63 (according to mapmyrun.com).