Today I ran a longer aerobic run of 17.51 at an overall 7:01 pace in 2:02. I ran everywhere. Downtown on Main st, and than uphill on Buckskin Rd. to our Hospital which is a 2 mile stretch. The temperature was 18 degrees with an 18mph wind that was really cold hitting the face. With the wind chill factor the temperature was 8 degrees according to the weather's web site. I ran 10 miles into the head wind then I had to turn around because my forehead couldn't stand the cold wind anymore. I wanted to test my new mittens out with a long run in this bad cold weather to see how my hands would do (I know I'm a sick person to want to run long in extreme windy, cold weather). These mittens were excellent and my hands didn't get cold like they usually do (Thanks to my Wife's Christmas present to me). Mittens seem to work better for me in the extreme cold than what I've used before.
I didn't take a gel, and I didn't drink water or anything else for the whole run. I wanted to see how my body would handle this. My energy level seemed fine, but I could tell on the last mile that I could have used a little bit of an energy pick-up.
When I walked into our house after the long run my wife asked if I would run a faster mile with her right now, and I said okay. She wanted to see how far she could run at a 9 minute pace. She did .45 before she was out of breath. Than we walked/jogged for a minute and picked the pace back up again and did this one more time before we finished with a total of 1.3 mile 16 :14 minutes. Very good speed work for her, and it was her idea.
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