AM: 12.6 miles, averaged 9:30. HR 9:30.
2 hours recovery to easy aerobic. Although of course a 2-hour run, even as slow as you can go, is not recovery. Just felt good to zone out and lap one of my two-mile loops around the neighborhood across from the middle school. The run felt very good. I haven't run in a week, but I don't feel like I have missed a step. Cycling keeps me strong. I lost 7 pounds of water weight. It was just under 80 degrees and slightly breezy without too much humidity.
I half thought of starting a running streak, but I don't know if I will be able to sustain that. Just trying to find goals that aren't race or time specific. Need to figure out whether I want to get some workouts in before Beach to Beacon or just start ramping mileage back up and see what happens and look toward fall. Thinking about a flat 50k in mid-October but I am sure this will change a million times. I do enjoy marathon training and 50k training is essentially marathon training and it might make for a good practice build up to decide if I ever want to run a standalone marathon ever again. It has been a full decade and if I don't do it soon, I likely won't, which is fine.
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