Sunday Long Run

My legs hurt! There you have it. It is Monday morning and my legs feel super heavy. It's not the kind of pain you get when you go back to the gym and do a heavy workout, it's more like an achy dense pain that is deep in the muscles. I got up yesterday morning and ran 11 or so miles. About 4-5 miles of this run course is a sustained uphill grade and yesterday added a 15-20 mph headwind for about half of that. But, when I turned the corner for the last mile of downhill run to my house and picked up a tailwind man did I feel great. I was running a low 5 minute mile pace at the end of a long run and that really swelled my ego. It was a great weekend of training and today I am doing what my coach says is the most important day- rest. This may sound strange, but that is actually pretty tough to do. I'd love to go do a light run, or a light swim- but I need to let my body repair itself. So today I will relax.