I wanted to run, after last week, a longer distance at marathon pace and for all the obvious reasons (last week long fast run, last week mileage and just two days ago another 6 good miles at marathon pace) did not happen. I started feeling so and so but well rested, not great, but it was OK until I reached the first incline of the road I started slowing down, bad sign not even a mile into the run. Last week I was always 10-20 seconds under goal time, today I struggled to stay 10-20 seconds above, when I got to mile 13.7 with a decent hill in front of me I gave up, since then things went from slower to bad, I did 13.7 in 1:39 and the remaing 6.5 miles in 54:00 in spite of the fact I was trying to stay below 8min/mile. I walked a mile at the end to get to the car just to relax my muscles and keep my legs moving, but I was really tired. Negative things : I am not able to sustain yet two big runs at MP on two consecutive weekends on high mileage. Positive things: it was another spectacular spring day with perfect running conditions, I did at least another half marathon and change at MP and I managed to complete on dead legs 6.5 miles (alone).
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