After taking two much-needed days off and then just eating too much yesterday to run or rollerski, I hit the road again today for a relatively short and quick but turned-out-to-be-hard run. Breathing was fine despite relatively high temperatures, but I was surprised to see that my heart rate was very high throughout the run and to feel that my legs were heavy as heavy legs. I was heartened to imagine that I felt so sluggish from inactivity, not the fatigue that had been bone-deep on July 1.
Having gone out two days of the five so far this month, and facing a probable four-day break next week when I am at a meeting out east, I am still going to aim high and try to exceed my June totals by fifteen percent, meaning 22 workouts (probably impossible) that each average an hour and cover 7.8 miles (both possible, if not quite likely). All that might well turn out to be ridiculous, but it's been really nice lately to feel so healthy (if not quite yet "fit"), and I want to keep that up.