The Chances

Well, this is interesting.

Saturday morning, I did the 13.3 miles.

Sunday I did nothing, I barely walked to the bathroom all day, and watched a lot of TV.

Today I ran 5 miles. I felt GREAT! I was expecting to still be a little sore, maybe a little slower, but nope. My heart rate was where it needed to be, I was faster than I was the previous week, and I'm in a great mood now.

Why did I feel so much better? Was it being exhausted after my Saturday run, and then the rest? I'm happy it's this way, but it's totally unexpected.

I also changed the settings on the Garmin to auto-lap every mile, so I now have my splits down (times for each individual mile):

Mile 1, 9:39
Mile 2, 9:50
Mile 3, 10:33
Mile 4, 10:09
Mile 5, 9:49
Mile 6*, 9:22

Mile 6 was only .35 of a mile. 5.35 miles, 53:15, 9:57/mi average. 673 calories burned.