So, after my less-than-stellar long run last week, I was a little nervous about this week. And then I remembered when I ran my first 10-miler during my marathon training and it was awful as well. So I looked at my blog from the following week when I ran 11 miles, and I remembered that that run was great. I had high hopes that history would repeat itself.
I had an average, run-of-the-treadmill run on Tuesday at my own gym. Then I ran at a different gym due to a training I had for work. There just happened to be a 24-Hour Fitness within 2 miles of my training (which was over an hour away from my house), so I knocked it out early before I picked up the boys from daycare. That run was fine, but the treadmill was a little different, so it felt weird. For the rest of the week I kept a close eye on the weather forecast...
Once again, thunderstorms sent me running inside again. I don't mind the mill runs for 3 miles, but anything above 6 miles tends to lose its "fun" factor rather quickly. The worst part was that SportsCenter wasn't playing on any of the TVs, so I was stuck watching "Law & Order". I hadn't watched that show much, but I was able to enjoy 2 episodes during my run. I think having to focus on reading the subtitles to keep up with the story helped distract me from my task, so it wasn't as dreadful as it could have been. I broke my run up into three 3-mile chunks with restroom breaks in between and a 2-mile chunk to end. If I didn't count my pit stops, I kept a 13:28-minute mile pace for the entire run. However, I kept my timer going, so my actual pace was 14:33-minute mile. I think that is the best pace I've kept for my long runs, so I feel pretty good about it. We'll see if I'm able to walk tomorrow... :)
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