Medium-long run. 4:39 am, 49-52°F, 27% humidity, wind 9 SSE. I'm glad this run is over. Of course I have to do this (this being 15 miles on a week day) two more times in this training cycle, and I have to do 14 miles on a week day, which is almost as bad, three more times. I never really felt good on this whole run. Maybe it was the lack of adequate sleep. Maybe it was that I dressed too warmly. (I wore long pants and a long sleeve shirt because I just couldn't bring myself to put on shorts and a short-sleeve shirt at 4:30 am, though I should have.) Maybe it was that my shoes started feeling uncomfortable after about 10 miles. I don't like these Nike Lunaracers for long distances. I hope the new Ronald McDonald shoes do better. About 3/4 of a mile into my run I realized up with my left hand and scratched my back. I wear my Garmin on my left wrist. I must have bumped the stop button when I scratched my back because two or three minutes later I realized that Garmin was stopped. I figure that I had run between .2 and .3 miles while my Garmin was stopped. I decided to go ahead and run until my Garmin said 15 miles, even though I missed that little bit. So I'm crediting myself with 15.2 miles even though my Garmin only said 15 and my AP and splits are based on the 15 that my Garmin recorded.
When I had about 5.5 miles to go, I found myself at an intersection and needed to make a decision about which way to go to get the rest of the run done. I was near the 5 mile point of my normal 6-mile route, so I decided to run that route in reverse from that point. Given the time of day and the similarity between my 6-mile route and Michelle's 4-mile route, I figured there was a good chance I would see her. First I saw the stiff-arm old man and then a minute later I crossed paths with Michelle. Then I realized that I would see her again on a different part of the loop. Sure enough, I crossed-paths with her again a couple of miles later. At that point I was following a runner who I thought might be Ali, who ran with us one Saturday a while ago. Sure enough, it was Ali. I passed her a little while after I crossed paths with Michelle the second time. I thought I was overdressed, but Ali was way overdressed. AP: 9:17. Splits: 9:49, 9:49, 9:40, 9:43, 9:32, 9:30, 9:19, 9:10, 9:06, 9:10, 8:49, 8:47, 8:50, 9:02, 8:56.
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