I have been trying to increase my Saturday long runs by 1 mile a week, so I set out to do 6 today. I was pretty happy with the distance. I took my husband's Garmin with me to get the distance correct. I have decided in the past few weeks, that I really just don't like running with a watch, because then I am more concerned with the time, and it just depresses me. It took me about 1 hour and 20 minutes to do this run, and I think probably at about a 13+ minute mile average pace. I know I am not fast, but I did get the distance.
Now for some feedback from you all.... I want to do the half marathon in September, so I wanted to just add 1 mile to each of my long Saturday runs. So next week I would do 7. I am wondering though if I should first get more comfortable with this 6 mile distance and improve my time before I move on to 7 miles? The longest run I have ever done was a couple of 10Ks. Which is 6.2 miles, I went 6.3, which makes this the longest run I have ever done. So yeah, I am just wondering if I should get more comfortable here before I try longer distances. What do you think?
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