13.1 miles in 1:55:59 on a warm and sunny morning. Definitely felt good to go a bit faster on a longer outdoor run

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…and I only almost got run over once. By a cyclist not following road rules – that stop sign meant you sir! Good thing I am always watching for that sort of thing, especially on residential area intersections. Lesson in that – Keep your heads up folks!

Anyway – no harm done and I wasn’t going to let that ruin my run.

The planned run today was 3 laps around my neighborhood for a total of 13.1 miles. I knew it was going to be a little warm (but not too bad) so I brought a bottle of fuel figuring I wouldn’t need most of it but it was good practice to use it anyway.

First lap was pretty strong and I did it in about 38 minutes (same loop that took me about 41 minutes yesterday – so my head was definitely more in the game today) and was still feeling strong.

Second lap was very good as well but was probably the slowest at just over 39 minutes (included a 45 second walk break to get some hydration about half way through the lap).

Third lap was very good as well – could tell I was dragging a bit and was getting hungry but I knew I wanted my time for the lap to be near where the second lap was so I kept pushing. In the end the time for the lap was a bit under 39 minutes making it faster than the second lap.

In the end the full run was 1:55:59 – that’s the fastest I have done that distance outside when not actually in a race. Race PR for the half is 1:46:00 so I wasn’t near that but it was a very good run and certainly helped boost my confidence!


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