Today was the longest run of my life...well, so far at least. This was the final "super long"* run prior to the Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon which happens 22 days from today. Ironically, enough, the run was 22 miles.
It was cooler and less humid today than last Saturday's 20 mile run and it was a better run overall. Don't get me wrong, it still egregiously sucked. I think it clocked in at about 3:30 or so. That's actually somewhat bad news for my unrealistic goal of doing 26 miles in less than four hours. Yeah, I knew that was going to be tough back in April when I signed up for the marathon. I have been doing my long runs at the 9:09min/mile pace, but I will admit that I haven't been as diligent about doing the intervals as I should have and as it turns out, that may make the difference in meeting -- or rather not meeting -- the four hour goal.
The next two weeks will be glorious by comparison as I am heading into a taper. Next week will be a few 3-5 miles runs during the week and a 14 mile run on Sunday. The long run the week prior to the marathon will be about eight miles.
Then October 2, 2011, the run will be 26.2 miles.
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* - my term
Labels: lakefront marathon, running
