Saturday

Got up early to do my weekly long trail run.  Quads were a little sore from yesterday's thrusters.  Otherwise everything felt alright.

Got up at 0605, left the house at 0640 and got to the forest at 0650.  It was mid 30s.  I decided to wear both sets of calf sleeves, shorts, a tshirt, a long sleeve tshirt, gloves, hat, my hydration belt and my Peregrines (obviously).

This is a pretty busy race weekend so I wasn't expecting many other people out there.  The Savannah Marathon is today, Governor's Cup half-marathon was downtown, and a few people were still recovering from hard races the previous weekend.  Ended up being three soccer moms, a few of the older guys, and myself.  In other words, not going to be a record setting lap time more than likely.

Stayed at the front of the group with a couple of the older guys up until the halfway point when the series of 3 big hills starts.  Then they slowed down and I decided I'd try to run a faster second half than the first half.  Took off.  Ran the first half in roughly 41min, ran the second half in roughly 35.5min.  Not too bad.  Finished in 1:16:32.  Not a great time, pretty average actually.  But it was good to do a negative split.

Then a couple minutes after finishing, I put on my 20lbs weighted vest and my 50lbs pack and did 2 sets 20 walking lunge steps and 2 sets of 20 calf raises.  Legs are done for the day.  I'll probably do some push ups, pull ups, and dips through out the rest of the afternoon.