Waited the rainy coldness out this morning - 40 degrees and rainy/windy until noon.
Sunny, warm, but very strong wind gusts still at 1pm.
Long Run workout: 10 AT Windy - Struggled with even effort and any sort of pace faster than 6:50ish. Took a full mile to get the legs loose and the system up and running, and then struggled with mile 2 at 7:00 pace... Hung around 6:50 - 7:00 but needed some bigger effort for some of those miles. Not the best of days performance-wise. jogged about 8-8:30 pace for the rest. The homemade mix I took along in my handheld was pretty awful... :)
Parked the car downtown at the Start/Finish line of MillRace Marathon. Route was part of the Mill Race course and then hopped onto people trails going out over the Lincoln Park Bridge over Hawcreek, and toward the airport. Definitely one of my favorite parts of the City we live in. Its a paved 60% shaded path that winds around a golf course, over and along side a couple of creeks, under a major road (used to have to cross through traffic before a cool project was completed), and out toward the lightly used regional airport.
19 miles total - 2:22:21. walked around the block to cool down and loosen up before a brief stretch and hopping in the car. Another good week. Gotta get on the perhab work to arrest (and reverse?) this knee tightness - probably IT band non-sense again.
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