20.32 miles today at a 6:46 pace in 2:17 at 10 degrees with the wind pushing against me at time in the run. A lot of rolling hills in this course, but a lot more uphill than downhill. I will discuss more later.... I was tired before the run today, because the night before I did a little speed work plus strength training with my wife. The strength training made me sore and I knew I would be a little sore in the 20 miler. I also feel I didn't eat enough at dinner, but the run really went fine. I took three teaspoons of honey before I felt for the run to get something in my stomach.
The last couple of miles I lagged a little bit and could have been better, but I wasn't really tiring to push any speed anyway. My eyes felt tired like they wanted to fall asleep in the run and my legs felt heavy the first few miles. Our son kept us up during the night getting up a couple of times.
I took an energy gel at mile 11 and grabbed some snow to wash it down ( I didn't take water with me). I did about 10 medium marathon pace miles at around a 6:30 pace. I basically wanted to be on my feet for a long time to get the aerobic fitness vs hurrying through the run. I'm a little sore after the run, but I was expecting that with all that I did yesterday. But to do a 20 miler and finish with the work I did yesterday I feel real good about that. I was dressed in two layers on the top, and by mile 5 I wanted to strip everything off. I guess running in the below zero weather the last few days, and running in 10 degrees today must of made my body feel like we were having a heat wave. I really tried to get a lot of uphill miles on this long run to strengthen my legs and get more uphill running training. I have to work late tonight again (disk mirroring maintenance and more wonderful security patches) so Saturday would have been hard to get up early and do a long run. I'll do probably around 8 - 10 miles tomorrow.
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