22 miles.
I took yesterday off to give my joints some rest, and I think it was a good idea. My legs felt good for all of this run. At about mile 20.5 I thought I was going to hit a wall and slow down, but I was able to push myself for another 1.5 miles.
It felt good to do this run, this is by far my longest run in a long time and it gave me a lot of confidence for TOU. It wasn't that long ago that I was fully expecting to finish TOU in over 4 hours, but now I have confidence that it won't be my worst marathon ever. My training hasn't been going for too long, and I thought taking a month off was going to hurt me a lot more than it seems to be. When I started back up after the month off, I couldn't even do 4 miles, now less than a month later I felt great doing 22.
Hopefully this "easy" long run will translate to a good race in 3 weeks.
22 miles, total time 2:43:33, avg pace 7:26 (including 3 drink stops of about 15 seconds each). Gu 15 minutes before, then at mile 6, 12, and 18.
These were my mile times.
| 7:44 |
| 7:37 |
| 7:28 |
| 7:35 |
| 7:37 |
| 7:30 |
| 7:33 |
| 7:24 |
| 7:13 |
| 7:15 |
| 7:06 |
| 7:15 |
| 7:34 |
| 7:20 |
| 7:20 |
| 7:11 |
| 7:20 |
| 7:24 |
| 7:49 |
| 7:26 |
| 7:25 |
| 7:27 |
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