I am in a very slow progression of adding to my long run. Caution has become my new matto, and I want to make sure I do everything I can to stay healthy this time. Today, I was hoping for 13. I had not measured the route before hand and ended up only running 12.54. It was in the upper 50's when I started and it was amazing. Since route plans had not been made I just set out to see what happened. I am surrounded by a lot of pretty big hills and I wanted a pretty flat run. A wrong turn early in the run meant that I ran 4 big hills and a number of smaller ones. A couple of the big hills have an extremely steep grade, I am not sure but I would say between 4% to 6%. So the hills alone made it a very good workout. It was very relaxed the entire time. There was never a time when I thought I needed to stop or even considered it. The first 8 or 9 miles must have been pretty slow because I ran the last 3 or 4 pretty fast and still only averaged 8:22. Overall I fell very good about the workout. Next weekend will be 15 miles.
12.54 miles
1:44:05
8:22 pace
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4 comments:
Sounds like a great day for a run. Nice job!
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Sounds like a nice run.
Hope your runs go well this weekend. Sounds like you're doing this training really smart. The slow miles today will pay off huge later!
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