Great day for a run. Somehow my shorts have been dissappearing and
so I had to borrow some of Tori's shorts. Surprisingly they fit pretty
well. I could have used my racing shorts but didn't want to freeze as
they are very thin and it was 38 degrees out. 3.3 miles to main park - water at 6 miles bottom of parkway accelerade at 8.5 miles via mill pond road centenial park and water then
to Mt. Si golf course and snovalley trail with a backtrack to mill pond
road to the bottom of parkway 12 miles accelerade and stretching before
the run/jog up the 2 miles of hill. As of 12 miles pace is 8:52 and
feeling pretty good. Then comes the hill...I'm running it at
the end to make myself become a little more mentally tough as that last
5-6 miles in the marathon made me hurt that first time around. First .5
miles no problem, then 1.5 miles with HR in the 160's was tough but I
pushed through. at 14 miles another short walking break with accelerade then off to home with 2 miles left. Pace
ended up at 9:00 and HR avg. was 143. I was pretty happy with the run
and even now a couple hours after the run I'm still feeling pretty
good. I am definitely feeling better about this upcoming marathon than
the last one, my first one. Sommer Reynolds (S. Sundwall's sister) is
gunning for a 3:30 and I am going to try and keep up. I ran my first
10K with her for the first few miles and she really helped me. When
I wasn't carrying a bottle and was on flat ground I worked on keeping
my arms low with my hands about waist high. Noticed that when my
thoughts were just going wherever my HR stayed lower. So need to keep
that in mind for racing. Tried to keep a nice easy stride to conserve
energy and it seemed to work pretty well. Watching our 2 younger daughters today so wifey pooh can get a little break with her Mom.
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