Big Workout Did my River trails tempo run workout that I've ran twice before. Once one month before the Modesto around Feb 17th and once a few weeks after on April 7th. My times from those two workouts were a 6:23 and 6:19 avg respectively for the 20 miles with 13 of it at a MP tempo. Today was a little different. 1st I recruited Aaron to run with. Big help having someone else there. And we pushed the tempo out from 13 miles to 14.8 and ended up doing a total of 22 miles at a 6:06 avg. So anyway you look at it today's workout dominated my past runs. And after today's run it pushed my weekly total to 103 which is a PR for the year too. We got out of the hole faster than normal hitting the very first mile in 7:03 and then down around 6:35 for the next 4 miles to top off our first 5 mile warm up:) Then started the tempo at the regular place. Up on the trail that overlooks the river where it comes into B-hills. Took off from there to the truck stop and down into Bloomington. Splits today- 5:57, 5:53, 5:54, 5:46, 5:40, 5:38, 5:28, 5:37, 5:35, 5:42, 5:46, 5:38, 5:47, 5:44, I didn't get the split for the last .8 Splits on April 7- 6:31, 6:15, 6:03, 5:57, 6:00, 5:45, 5:31, 5:42, 5:31, 5:58, 5:37, 5:39, 5:55
Ended up hitting the first 20 miles just under 2 hrs which is hard to do in a workout that's not down the STG marathon course. Finished 22 miles in 2:14:09 Very solid workout for me on a flat or slightly hilly course. Nothing downhill for sure. I guess because of the even splits in the tempo and the length of the run and the fairness of the course this may be the BEST workout in my running history. cooled down for about 2.2 back to the house... actually when we got to the house we were at 21.75 and both of us decided we might as well do another quarter to square off the 22.
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