Great morning for running (42, calm). Three weeks until the Huntsville marathon so this is my last 20 miler. Today I ran out to a loop that has some decent hills and I ran that loop 3 times to get a long run in with more hills to prepare for Huntsville. Got started early and was sluggish getting going. I felt like I was running good but I was really slow starting out. After a few miles I finally got to feeling a little better. I still just took it easy to around 10 miles because of the way I was feeling. After 10 I started to pick up the pace and I ran faster each mile from then to the finish. I ran the last 8 miles all under 7:25 and the last 4 between 7:15 and 7:00. For starting off kind of bad it turned out to be a good run and I felt pretty good afterward. My plan is to try to get a pretty good week in this coming week, run med-long next Sat and then do a two week taper for the marathon. I also need to start figuring out what my plan should be for the race pace wise. Now off to paint a dining room and put up the outside Christmas lights since it is going to be such a nice day. 2:46:00 (7:41 avg)
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