The long run wasn't too bad today. I ran with another member of the group - they like you to run in pairs if you can - and at 14 minutes a mile and just a 3:1 interval, it was about as "leisurely" as running four miles can be, which is to say not especially. But I completed it in 57:30 without much difficulty - the only real hiccup was that on the back half my left foot started getting numb again, and at some point I got a bit of a stinger in my left little toe area, and had to walk one of the three-minute intervals instead of running it just for a little respite. But even with that in mind it wasn't too terrible. The coach suggested using a massage ball on the bottom of my foot to try to roll out the tendons as that could be the problem; I thought my shoe was pretty loose today but it didn't stop the foot from going numb, so presumably that's not it. The running at all is probably the main effect, as we would say in experimental psychology, but there's probably an interaction effect - just what from is not yet clear.
Five miles next week. Probably going to have to start wearing sunblock once the runs go over an hour.
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