progressive long run

silver comet trail

49° 36% humidity

sunny, wind 7 mph

13.34 miles

2:10:00

9:44 pace

12:14....111

12:08....123

11:36....131

11:41....133

10:41....144

8:36......149

9:02......155

9:02......160

9:17......163

8:41......164

8:20......171

7:57......175

7:55......180

2:45......182

Invigorating run. Perfect weather. Happy with the sub 8:00 in the latter part of the run.

I really like progressive runs of this type---the last few miles feel almost like the end

of a race. It takes some focus to maintain pace.

--Jimmy

10.16 miles

1:50:00

10:36 pace

peak HR 165

Didn't have much zip today.I haven't been eating enough. Like today, I got up and ate a few eggs and a pice of toast at 7:30am, then got involved in drawing and stuff, and before I knew it, it was 3:00 and I had to go do a long run. I never eat closer than 3 hours, so I was pretty hungry when I started---just didn't have any zip at the same hr. 

That's when I knew this is a cutback week. SO, until SUnday or Monday, it will be just MAF runs.

I was looking back at when I ran my best marathons, and it was my practice to skip a week between long runs--sometimes two weeks. It was based on research that I read that it takes 2-3 weeks to fully recover from one.  I'm going to return to that as my volume builds. 

--Jimmy