Need to bring more fuel next time. Warmed up 2-3 miles and then did 11-12 focusing on heart rate- staying around 155-165. Ran up and down Weber drive twice for this route. Averaged 6:10 on the downhills and 7:10 on the uphills. Then 4 miles at marathon pace: 5:32, 5:29, 5:38, 5:45. Mostly downhill on the tempo which is why average was 5:36. Only ate a banana before and a banana at 10.7 miles so I really need to work on feeling because I was suffering by the end today. Tomorrow is an easy week so my long run 2 weeks from now I need to bring energy gels. Ended with 20 minute sauna. Some pros from today: -Climbed more in this 20 miler (1250) than in all of SLC marathon (900ish) -Good fast marathon pace miles from 14-18 -Made it through my first 20 mile run Things to work on: -Heart rate was too high for marathon pace miles climbing from 167 on the first mile to 179 on thr last one. Ideally that would have stayed in the low 170s. -Fueling, which may have contributed to having to work harder during marathon pace miles. In the middle: -Kinda needed to poop for like the last 12 miles of this run but it never became an emergency... not ideal though. Would have stopped to poop but they took away the only porta potty on this road. |