Good run for me this morning. I've been concerned about my endurance and today's run probably helped that a little bit. Earlier in the week I saw Marcie and she said they were planning a 23 mile run this morning on the course. In the past I've never done a training run longer than 20 miles, but I figured I would be a good sport and go along with the group if that was what they were really wanting to do. Anyway, last night I was thinking if I could run around 2:40-2:45 that would be a decent workout for 23 miles. Got to the park and had lots of people catch a ride up with Mike. The Circle of Trust did a 16 mile workout, RUNNMAN got dropped off up a little further and did a 20 miler. Then Mike, Marcie, Marissa?, and Me started above Brookside. We took the first 11.5 miles easy. 1-7:54 2-7:46 3-7:14 4-7:13 5-8:14 Veyo Hill 6-7:56 7-7:39 8-7:55 9-7:31 10-7:21 11-7:20 After 11.5 I stopped got some water, went the bathroom then started to pick up the pace. We were right at 7:40 average pace
12-6:46 13-6:00 14-6:04 15-6:11- Right Hamstring started to cramp up along with some intense hip pain
16-6:35 Winchester Hill 17-6:16 18-6:02 19-6:16 20-6:00 21-6:23 22-6:46 23-6:30 Tried to pick up the pace to the finish, but ended up coming in at 2:40:07, so 6:57 average for the entire run, which I feel pretty good about. If I could actually be close to this time 2:40 on race day, I would be pretty happy. Of course that is adding 3 miles than I ran today. Anyway, I'm glad I did this workout, and now it is time to relax for the rest of the day and watch some college football. Cumulus-267
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