Lumberpick

Went to the Y this morning for a nice short recovery run on a treadmill. I got there @ 6:15 and every one of the treadmills was taken. Every one! What's really annoying is seeing guys in their late 20's walking on the treadmill at a liesurely pace!!? I'm sure that has to be some sort of indictment of our society today, I'm not sure what though. So anyway, I was smart enough to know that I would only have to wait, at most, 10 minutes for one to open up. If every body there was a serious runner I would have turned around and left and ran out in the dark, which I didn't feel like doing. The run went ok. I ran for 25 minutes @ 7:30 pace. I felt fine. I remember now that just because you are sore from a long run doesn't mean you're going to feel all that sore running. I remember in college reading some of the workouts we were assigned to do in college by my coach and thinking "How can we do this workout?! We just did 14 miles yesterday with a hill workout afterward. How the heck are we supposed to finish 6x1000 @ 3:00 today?!" But, everytime we would go out there and do the next workout, I would finish faster than what was prescribed me. That' s the positive thing about a coach who used to run the marathon. He knows. Oh did he know. He knew what your body could take and how far you could push it, and yes we had guys getting all sorts of injury through the season, but I think coach Antczak would have just chalked those up to 'they couldn't keep up with the workouts because they didn't put the mileage in this summer and that's their own fault'. He never said that, but he had that sort of a personality, and I for one agreed.