Decided to take advantage of the day off and get in a long run. So I devised a loop that I could do once for an 8-miler, twice for a 14-miler, and didn't seem horribly hilly. Some hills, but not like, say Oucho's. Or so I thought. By the end of the second loop, it seemed every bit the equal of Oucho's.
Left the Casa, went down Waldron to Rogers. Then the loop started: Continue south on Waldron, work around past Hardscrabble and Southside, up Old Greenwood to Rogers, down Rogers back to Waldron. Then repeat. After the second loop, went up Waldron to Free Ferry and returned home that way to push the mileage up over 14. I did a pretty good job of maintaining the pace through most of the run, but the last two miles the legs were dead. Even then, I kept the pace in the 9:30s, which is darn good considering how little energy I had left. Definitely an HTFU run. Overall average pace: 9:20.
Exactly three months until Boston. All I have to say is, I'm glad Boston's not in March. I'm gonna need just about all of those 90 days to get ready.
Ice bath afterward. That may have hurt as much as the 14... | 