11.8 mi, 1:33:45, 7:57 avg
Medium long run (which would end up being my longest run of the week). Kind of a hodgepodge. Left my house a little bit after 6:00 and stopped at the Striders ending area to say hi and get into the picture. I carried a gatorade with me which I left at the park bench and took a "Ginsting" gel (from a box that Jenny gave to me because she didn't like them).
Was not up for tempo, so first I did one faster mile at 6:37. Then 0.5 mile easy run, then one more mile which felt easy at first so I kept on picking it up and finished it in 5:54. Then another easy paced section just under a mile, followed by 2 fast miles together doing 6:33 and 6:19, then ran easy until I was back at the picnic table where I left my gatorade, but it was gone (possibly picked up by Striders when they were packing up and thought it was trash). So, I jogged across the street and used the water fountain outside the swimming pool, then headed home.
As I approached my neighborhood, picked up the pace again and kept going a little bit faster and finished the last full mile in 7:00, then had about a third of a mile to get home.
The whole run felt like an adventure!
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