The plans in getting ready for LVM include a 20 miler this week and another in two weeks. So today was the first of the big nasties. My original plans included going out and warming up for a few miles and then hitting some marathon pace miles to finish it off. I decided to scrap the marathon pace miles and stick closer to the 10-20% slower rule based on this high mileage week. So during the course of running I decided I would at least run the second half faster than the first half. The first 10 came in at 1:22:45 and the second 10 came in at 1:20:59 for a 1:46 negative split. One of my many weaknesses in the marathon is fading off really bad toward the end so I really wanted to buckle down and concentrate on running at least an even split and I accomplished better than that today. Overall I am happy with the run and have no worries about being ready for LVM in 5 weeks. Just keep the injury bug away, thank you very much.
This concludes only my second 60 mile week ever, glad to be done with it.
Time: 2:43:44 8:11/mile | 