YEAH!!!! That is the farthest I have ever ran!! I felt pretty good until the last 2 miles. I didn't hurt or anything, just juice levels dropped. It had gotten warmer by then. The sun did go behind a cloud shortly after that so at least the sun didn't kill me. I slowed down alot but I made it. I did have a pretty good hill with 1 mile left to go and that made my last mile 11 something, which I am actually still happy with at that point (hence the name I have kept, i.e. slowpoke).
My dad leap frogged me very 2 miles with gatorade and water, what an awesome dad!! I am sure that was the longest 2 hours of his life, and I was very grateful for his help.
That is the most I have every drank running, I took a sip or 2 of gatorade and a sip of water each time. I always thought I would get side aches, but I was thankful for the hydration today, and had no aches or pains.
I averaged 10:19's. The first 5 I kept under 10's, not by much but I did.
I am pretty sure when I ran 10, 3 weeks ago or so, I averaged 10:33's and that is quite ecnouraging.
Happy to be doing it. And I was confused, I don't up it to 20 for a few more weeks, thank goodness!!!
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