Last Saturday (7/23) was the Hoffman Estates/Alexian Brothers Hopsital Half Marathon. As planned, I ran in this race. Yesterday (7/29) I ran another 13 miles.
My takeaway lesson from running 13 mile runs back to back (week-wise)? I'm not up for it.
It was tough. When I got home from the run I thought I was going to pass out. It took me a few hours to finally regain some energy and feel good.
Until I build up some more stamina, I need to avoid running such a long distance in back to back long runs. I should have capped it at about 9 miles. I know I would have been fine at that distance because I felt okay up until that point when running yesterday.
Another lesson I've learned is to take it easy in terms of working out (even non-running workouts) the day before a double-digit run. I got a good night's sleep the night before the run. My diet was appropriate too. I did, however, have a very good strength-training workout the night before and that may have tired me out some.
I'm resting today and then tomorrow I'll try to run about 6 miles on an indoor track. I'll be fasting come Monday (8/1) and at that juncture my workouts are going to be both shorter and probably a bit less strenuous as well. During Ramadan I will not be running any double digit runs.
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