Ran 24 miles this morning. My wife dropped me off out on the other side of town. I ran up Glendale road which has a lot of rollers mostly uphill for 6.5 miles with about 450 net elevation gain at 8:16 ave pace. Then 6.5 back down at 7:32 pace. Next 4 miles back toward home mostly flat at 7:29 pace. Next 3 miles have 270 ft decent in the first mile then 270 back up in the 3rd mile crossing the bear river gorge. 7:47 ave for those 3 miles. Last 5 miles were mostly flat in 7:17 pace [7:33, 7:33, 7:17, 7:17, 6:49]. I don't ever remember feeling better at the end of a 20 mile or longer run. My hip even felt good the whole way. I did take 400 mg of ibu last night and again this morning. I wasn't feeling to great for a few miles around 10 or 11 and figured this was going to get ugly by the end. The first water bottle I had stashed was at 14 miles but I should have had it much earlier. I normally don't worry about water on runs less than 15 miles but this morning I must have been more dehydrated. I was so thirsty I chugged down most of the 32 ozs and immediately felt better. I had another 32 oz water bottle at about 19 miles and chugged most of that one too. I'm very happy with this run especially the way I felt in the final miles. After the 22 miler I did 1 1/2 weeks ago my hip got sore within 20 minutes of finishing. This time it's feeling pretty good. My garmin claims around 2400 total feet gained and lost but from looking at a topo map I would say it was closer to 900 ft with my starting at finishing points about the same elevation. Garmins are usually within 20 to 30 feet on elevation readings at any given time which isn't bad but by the time those small errors get added up throughout a run, they get way off. Run took 3:05:31 total time [not counting a couple of minutes at the 2 water stops] which hopefully is at least 5:32 longer than I will be running at St George in 19 days. Overall pace for 24 was 7:43.
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