Medium-long run. 7:16 am, 34° F, 59% humidity, winds calm. I can't really bring myself to call 8 miles a long run. The last training plan I did called anything from 10-14 miles a medium-long run and it had to be at least 15 miles to be a long run. So by that system, I'm far of from a long run and 8 miles shouldn't even be a medium-long run. But with the way I've been running lately, 8 miles is something more than your ordinary distance. I checked in my log, and unless I'm mistaken, the last time I ran 8 miles or more was last August 14. We've been running from Michelle's house on Saturdays, but I made her come over and start from my house today. If we start and finish at her house, the biggest hills would be at the last part of the run. If we start and finish at my house, the last mile is mostly down hill. We were having such a hilly run today I didn't want to finish with an up hill. Finishing up hill is very hard for me. Michelle handles it better than I do. Incidentally, according to my Garmin, we had 691 ft. of ascent on this run.
Michelle likes to sprint at the end of the run and she ran the last 100 yards as fast as she could. I sped up too, but not as much as she did. I didn't want to repeat my puking episode of last Saturday. It was a pretty slow run over all. I guess that's acceptable as we increase mileage.
AP: 10:12. Splits: 10:11, 9:56, 10:01, 10:17, 10:31, 10:10, 10:31, 9:58.
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