WOW!! What a glorious run today. What huge confidence boost for my fitness and ability to finish a respectable marathon. I set out with the goal today to run for 3 hours no matter the distance and run 5-10 of those miles right around my goal marathon pace of 7:28/mile. I ended up running 23 miles and running 13 miles of what I will call marathon pace miles. I won't take the time to record the splits but that the fastest mile was 7:21 and the slowest mile was 7:45 of the 13 marathon pace miles. I think my average pace for those miles was right around 7:35/mile. Felt good most of the way with no bad aches or pains to speak of. The foot was pretty much a non-issue and isn't bothering me at all post run. I did have my usual lower back and hip pains from time to time but they are tollerable. I'm running in new territory now, I have never run more than one 20 miler in preparation for a marathon (this is number 2) and I have never run more than 20 miles in a training run. Feels good to be getting it done. Only two more hard weeks until the taper starts. Then three agonizing weeks of waiting and healing. Ended the monthe with 179 miles which is not too bad considering I had a couple of weeks with 35 and 8 miles.
Time: 3:05:42 8:04/mile
NB768 184.08 NB768 (new) 22.0 Saucony A2 11.9 | 