Notes
Weather came good after the late-week storm. Knees were really sore last night after hiking and dropping big cliffs up Asahidake yesterday, so I was a bit worried about a long one today. Woke up feeling pretty normal though, which was a relief, out the door toward Takasu, where I used to live back in the day, beautiful countryside.
Got no fancy watch that I can keep each split time on, but I was hoping to keep about 5:30 pace, which would be pretty comfortable. Turns out I went a little faster. All in all, really was no worries until about 23k or so, but even then nothing too painful. The moster hill at 20k got me pumping, but had some techno rocking my ears and helped to keep the pace!
The only stats I got are for the two halves;
1-13k (1hr 11min)
13-26k (1hr 8min)
Sweet neg split coming home for a 2hr 19min total!
Looking back, it's so much faster than when I ran a 26k long run last July at 2hr 33min.
Even the weekly total are so much more this time round, what does it all mean.....?