Marathon Training - Week 4 - 4 mile run

Marathon Training - Week 4 - 4 mile run

Yesterday was my long "weekday" run. The way my training program is set up it slowly increments and eventually the Wednesday runs gets a little longer culminating in a 10 mile Wednesday run on the same week as my longer 20 mile run on Saturday.

Anyways, yesterday was slated for a 4 mile run and that is what I completed. I slowed down my back to a "comfortable" pace and ran to a neighborhood close to my house and back. I ended up doing it in 42 minutes or so for around a 10:30 pace. The pace was pretty comfortable to maintain and I think I could keep that up for a longer run so we'll see if I can't end up with a run similar to that this weekend.

I'm not sure if it was my shorts or what but I ended up with some chafing after my run last night. That doesn't happen often but it's annoying as hell when it does, I haven't noticed it much today so I am still planning on running my planned run tonight but we'll see. I don't really want to slather up vasoline or whatever you do for longer runs just to go out and run 30 minutes here and there, but if it becomes and issue I might have to.

I've been thinking that the shorts I use for running are more "athletic" shorts and less running shorts. I'm looking to maybe get a pair or two of shorts that are more tailored to running but at my local track store those shorts are 30-40 bucks a pair. That's alot to pay for a pair of shorts I'm not even sure will do anything. Maybe I need to just bite the bullet.

Does anyone out there run with specific running shorts? If so what brand and where did you get them.