Today I did a long run and the weather was absolutely awful 30 mph gust with rain, but it was about 39 degrees so that was the only thing in my favor. I tried pushing in the wind and really wore myself out the first part of the run which was 9 miles in the wind. Then I turned around and had somewhat of a tail wind. The wind would just knock you back and I did everything I could to fight through it. I made one mistake on this run that I dressed too much and was very hot. I can never remember sweating so much. That will definitely take the energy out of you.
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7:23, 7:12, 7:08, 7:05 | (warm-up, but maybe too fast in the wind where it would beat your head and body up. The light rain wasn't bad..) |
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6:56, 657, 6:43, 7:22, 6:31 | (so windy I just was trying to fight through it to get a decent pace per mile) |
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6:00, 5:57, 6:11, 6:09 6:01 6:02 | (got a little tail wind on these miles, but not a lot. I did get some MP miles.) |
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7:12 | (cool down)
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Really not the run I was hoping for and not very impressive at all. Mileage: 16.3 miles at a overall 6:41 pace in 1:49. One thing I tried to accomplish in this run is to simulate the Silicon Valley marathon where the first 13 is a gradual uphill and the last 13 is a gradual downhill and it's sort of a loop run. My first 8 1/2 miles were a gradual uphill and the rest were a gradual downhill and I did sort of a loop run. Evening: Ran 3.2 mile with my 11 year old daughter at a overall pace of 8:32. We did some fartlek training to teach her to pick the pace up. There's a 5k race that were going to run together, and I want her to win in her age division.
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