Long run. 10:24 am, 38-46°F, 84-66% humidity, winds 7 NNW, very overcast with mist to begin, light rain for a few minutes around mile 8, and then partly cloudy with some sun by the end. Thus ends week 1 of mesocycle 3. I really wanted to do 13 miles yesterday so that I would have 70 for the week with my scheduled 18 today, but I didn't manage it. I thought about going out yesterday afternoon for the 3.36 that I missed, but I took a nap instead. So I added the 3.36 to today's run. I was supposed to have 70 miles last week and didn't make it, so I wanted to get 70 miles this week. Also, I missed a scheduled 20 miler back in March on the day that I ran the Canyonlands Half Marathon, so I thought it would be nice to get another 20+ miler done. However, I bailed on Michelle this morning. I was supposed to meet her at her house at 7:30 as long as it wasn't raining or snowing. I got up at 6:30 and it was cold, in the low 30s, and it didn't look like it was raining too much, but I did see a person out walking a dog carrying an umbrella (the person was carrying the umbrella, not the dog). I really didn't want to be cold and wet for 3 1/2 hours, so I went back to bed and figured I'd run later when the weather was a little better. I didn't call Michelle because I thought she would still be asleep. I was going to call her at about 7:15, but I fell asleep. She called me at 7:40 wondering where I was. So I wasn't a very good friend this morning. I didn't really have great weather when I started out, but it got better by the end of my run. I decided to circumnavigate Highlands Ranch today instead of running a shortly loop repeatedly. I passed 3 different high schools and 4 Walgreen's one of them twice, on this run. I kind of combined three different routes that I normally do, which meant that in addition to have the hills at the beginning that I often have, I had the hills going up Highlands Ranch parkway in the 2nd half, not quite at the end. I'm glad to finally be done. AP: 9:32. Splits: 10:13, 9:40, 9:28, 9:21, 9:39, 9:17, 9:43, 9:08, 9:14, 9:02, 9:12, 9:16, 9:32, 9:34, 9:44, 9:32, 9:43, 9;26, 9:47, 10:07, 9:33, 0.36 @ 9:22.
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