What Gives?

You all know I’ve been brutalizing challenging my body with CrossFit/P90X…and that I’m 2+ weeks into a whole foods diet initiative…and that running has taken a back seat until the end of the year when Boston training ramps up.
I’ve been yammering on about my buttular state of emergency, how sugar-deprived I am, and so on.
Fast forward to last weekend:
Friday: I did a brutal workout which included heaven knows how many weighted lunges on a Bosu, lunges off of a step, squats with weights, squats with a medicine ball, lunging and squatting, squatting and lunging, with sticks, with boulders, with flaming spears, javelins, rings of fire….I exaggerate but not by much.

Saturday: Anniversay 11 miler. It was mediocre but what do you expect after Friday? Plus my pushup challenge had me doing a total of 148. Not all at once, but in sets with rest between. May as well have been 148 million though. Our celebratory dinner consisted of a hand-tossed veggie pie at Pizza Hut of all places. The height of elegance, I know. Thing 2’s reading award coupon for a free personal pie drew us in. And, continuing in high style, we followed the pizza up with some frozen custard. A girl’s gotta stray off her diet once in a while right?

Which brings me to Sunday: I never run 2 days in a row. Like ever. I know I’m a slacker. Many/most of you probably do. If I divulged to my Boston cronies what kind of weekly mileage I ran for any of my marathons they’d probably choke then promptly drop kick me out of their circle of friends. Kidding.
But today the rain had not yet started and I simply FELT like running. So I got out for a quick 5 miler just for fun. As usual, no pace goals and certainly no expectations. None.
Mile 1: 9:01. Fast for me for a warmup mile.
And I got faster. And faster. I felt light and fast and GREAT and I swear I wasn’t pressing. Even into the wind! Where was this energy coming from? Sub 8 minute miles felt joyful and EASY! What is up with that?
I’m sure the pizza/ice cream had alot something to do with it but a great run after two hard workouts does not compute. I’m gonna chalk it up to a wonderful and very welcome gift. The unexpectedly great runs are the best!