13.1 long miles of drudgery on the dreadmill. When I woke up this morning it was blowing like no other. I know when I can hear the wind over the sound of the fan in our room that it is pretty bad outside. So I slept in. Meg and I then went to the YMCA around 9:30 and I started my fun on the treadmill. Pretty much ran the whole way at zero incline except for mile 12 which I bumped up to 2 percent to try and simulate mile 12 at the Hurricane half. It was tough. I had some good tunes but had a heck of a time keeping the dang ear phones in my ears. I finally had to wrap the cord around my big ear and then shoved it in the ear canal. It finally stayed in, thank goodness. I couldn't do 13 miles just staring at the wall. This was the last long run before Hurricane so I threw in some miles at race pace just for the fun of it. Those miles were at about 7:15/mile pace. Will do a bit of a taper next week with maybe one run in there that will have a couple of miles at race pace, maybe. I have one more event on Tuesday in my Corporate Challenge trifecta...the walk race. Hopefully that doesn't leave me hurting for the Half Marathon on Saturday.
Time: 1:45:40 8:04/mile |