This morning I got off work at 2:30am and got to sleep by 3am, and I was pretty wiped out. When I got home at 2:30am I took some cough syrup. I had a sore throat, cough, and stuffy nose. I slept till 5:30am and woke up to blow the shoe laces out of my nose, and went to the bathroom. I did go back to bed and slept till close to 9:30am. I decided then I would head out for a long run. Now I wasn't feeling well with the sore throat and head cough and knew I needed to take the run easy. I drove out to Century High School. I ran the opposite direction of the last half of the Pocatello Marathon course till the 10 mile point. Then I turned around and run back on the course, and the wind was horrible. It must have been blowing over 20mph. I've never quit on a long run, but it was a thought, until I thought what Dave Holt said last Friday in his 50 miler. That motivated me even though I wasn't feeling the best because of the cough.. I took everything nice and easy not going under a 7 minute pace for the whole run. That wind though was awful and made the second half exciting. The second half portion of this course is tough because of the rolling hills. I got to run over them back and forth twice which is good training. It's mentally tough to know you have to turn around and run the same stuff over again. Note: The achillies seems to be doing awesome so that's exciting.
I finished at 21.33 miles at an overall 7:27 pace in 2:38. I took power zero with me and carried the 8oz bottle for the whole run. I took some sports beans at mile 15. The weather other than the wind was gorgeous. I ran in shorts and a long sleeve shirt that I could zip down, and sunglasses. I still wore gloves because my hands always freeze. Very good endurance run. I wanted to be out on my feet for along time just for the endurance factor, and not care about pace. I believe my speed is there and working on the endurance will bring the speed aspect to a level I need to be at.
Good run for not feeling well. Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow. Good luck to all those running Boston and SLC marathon's this weekend.
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