My place through downtown to 8th south to Jordan River Parkway / 9 Lane shared trailhead, to the end of 9 lane, back, down Jordan River Parkway, back to 8th, and back. First 15.5 miles at an average pace 1 second / mile faster than my sea level marathon pace. Accidentally did the first 2 miles kind of fast (6:17/6:13), but they felt comfortable, so I decided to roll with it. Had 15.05 on my watch in 1:36:xx for the marathon-ish pace miles, but had accidentally shut it off for about a half mile, so I'm calling that roughly 15.5. Did the last 2.5 miles (once back on the outskirts of downtown back to home) easy, as a cooldown, because a) it was getting dark and I didn't want to be rushing through intersections, b) I hadn't eaten in 7 hours, didn't bring gels, and was absolutely famished by 15 miles in, so I didn't feel like running more MP miles.
Miles 1 and 2 were 6:15 average, but I backed off and ran more around 6:30-6:35 from 2-9, so I actually picked it up from there from 9 to 15.5.
Overall, it felt not so hard aerobically and my legs held up well. My hip was minorly irritated around mile 10, so I stretched for ~20 seconds at mile 10 and it was 100% fine from then on. 15.5 miles at 6:26/mile at 4400' is actually equivalent to a 2:47 full marathon effort at sea level, so being able to do this with relative ease when not even close to in shape definitely demonstrates that I'm going to run a big PR next time if I can just not get a nasty virus right in time for the marathon like I did last time out.
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