I was a bit concerned about this run giving Friday's lack of energy and the amount of miles I have put in this week. Still this morning's 18 miles were not bad. I had intended to run my usual Boston Simulator route, but it takes me into the town of Charlotte. They do not believe in using salt on their roads so with the snow we go yesterday the roads in Charlotte were not fit to be run on. Even here in town I had to pretty much run on the yellow line in the center of the road to find pavement.

To get in the mileage on decent roads I had to pretty much patch together a bunch of other routes.

Generally my pace was pretty good. Only on the uphills did my pace slip below 7:30 and I had a few miles close to 7:00. I ran miles 14-16 at MP. The first of these three is up a pretty stiff mile long series of hills on which I managed only a 7:09; the second was mostly downhill at 6:38; the third MP mile is generally flat and was run at 6:41. The last two miles were slow. Overall, 18 hilly and occasionally slick miles at 7:18.

78 miles is by far record mileage for me.

Victor

Cross-training: 0.0 miles
Running: 18.0 miles
Shoes: Asics GEL Flash
WTD running: 66.5 miles
WTD total: 78.0 miles

posted by Not So Competitive Runner at 9:17 PM