Notes
Well this was mostly awesome with a couple caveats. One, I forgot my Garmin! I was so upset when I showed up at Pete's and I realized I didn't have it. Luckily, I had my iPhone so I got all the mile splits using runkeeper but sadly no HR which is a shame because I am so curious where I was at. This was supposed to be a marathon pace run and as usual it was probably a bit quicker, especially since it wasn't as far as my last ones. Also, I guess because it was cold, and I had no watch to check, I went pretty quick right of the bat. But I was feeling good and I kept it up. I feel like I wasn't pushing any harder than I have before, if anything not as hard. I averaged 7:33 for the first 10 miles and I was feeling like I was speeding up a bit for the last 4 miles and was looking to kick it in at the end. And then my right leg seized up a bit.. It was mostly my calf but also up a bit behind my knee. I stopped right away and stretched out on the side of the road. I was very upset, because my run had been going so well up to that point. I started to jog a bit and it seemed to feel ok. So I slowly picked up the pace again. When I looked at runkeeper, I saw that I had the chance to break my half time, even with me stopping and stretching, so I picked it up a bit more and the leg felt fine. I passed 13.1 in 1:40:10, beating my best half time, during a training run, including stopping and stretching! I was very happy with this. I think the leg is fine and I just need to stretch it and use the roller a bit. I'll talk about the run with the R2C team in the next run.
runkeeper splits:
mi Pace (min/mi) Elevation (ft)
1 7:44 -9
2 7:32 -9
3 7:35 3
4 7:43 -12
5 7:27 -4
6 7:39 -3
7 7:23 -11
8 7:32 35
9 7:28 18
10 7:25 -3
11 8:38 35
12 8:04 0
13 7:28 -33
14 6:44 -13