gym post

Skipped the gym yesterday and went today instead of tomorrow, so it's a short week, gym-wise. My leg muscles are still pretty cranky from my three-mile runs last week, so the plan today was to go slow and not as far. I met with at least partial success with this plan. I started out at my usual slow pace, but added an incline on alternating quarter mile segments the first mile. That was enough to leave me feeling pretty tired for the rest of the run (2.5 miles), but I still pushed the speed the last half mile, which is probably what made my legs sore last week to begin with. So I guess my legs will continue to hurt. But I feel like I need to run faster, so I'm not sure what to do to minimize the amount of discomfort I feel for days and days afterwards (not stiffness, some sort of pain in the muscles on impact).

I also added in crunches. It's been two and a half or three years since I did the crunches on anything like a regular basis, so that sucked a lot. But I still did eight sets of 25, working upper, lower and side abs, so hopefully I can get back into a routine with that and tighten up my tummy a little bit.