Long run. The Landing in Renton. Met up with the Balanced Athletes after quite awhile since I had ran with them last. I was really worried about my knee acting up again since my last long run. Howeve, I am so happy to say I didn't have any problems on my long run. It was a perfect morning to run, cloudy and cool. We ran from the BA store along Lake WA to Castle Park and back. They said it was about 11.2 miles but on my GPS I got 10.88....huh? Oh well that was about my goal of distance. Different groups ran different distances. I ran more with the guys because they were doing the long 10 mile ish run. I ran with Tony, Robert, and a couple of others. Tony is such an amazing runner. 3 hrs and 3 min. marathon!! We all ran in a little group there but Tony and his other friend totally left me in the dust on the way back. So it ended up Robert and I ran together because we were about the same speed and both trainning for our first marathon in the fall. It was neat to get to know some of the people better and felt nice they were including me even though it had been awhile. Eric ran with a different group so I didn't see him much. There were some rolling hills which were though, all on pavement, I pushed to keep up but I felt good. Mile 9, 10 were tough but hung in there. Slowed down my pace a little bit around that area. We tried to catch up with this other guy and girl in a group but couldnt' quite catch them. The only area had to stop my watch was when we got to castle park and then once or twice when we were crossing the street.
TT: 1:40:24 Avg: 9:14 min Max: 6:05 min
Splits: 9:40, 9:12, 8:57, 8:57, 8:54, 9:04, 8:48, 9:22, 9:14, 9:29, 10:00 | 