The Beast has been tamed...well at least domesticated. That parkway hill did not get the best of me today even after having already run 17 miles...happy to be able to hang in there and not be dead at the top...had enough leftover to run a marathon pace mile to finish. Legs felt very good to start and most of the run. Almost perfect day for a long run...rain overnight and 50 degrees with not too much wind. A few sprinkles here and there.
Started from home and hit the ridge for a couple miles, then down the parkway with a stop at the park @ 2.75. Then finished parkway down and through town over to riverview park @ 5.50 miles. Then up and around Kinghorns loop and back to riverview @ 8.75 mile and 1/3 powerbar. Then Mill pond rd to Centennial park @ 11.75(stretched). Then golf course and Sno Valley trail and back to park @ 15.3 miles(this is where I was feeling a little tired due to running that trail so cut it short). Saw John Milks there with his son Logan who had a baseball game and ended up chatting for about 5 minutes with him(nice break). Finally headed back home and stopped at the parkway park @ 18.25. Was able to power up the rest of the hill and finish strong with a .5 mile walk to finish up. I didn't eat anything before this run and it felt great! Ate a power bar while running and that is it. I was STARVING when I got home. Drank a bunch of Accelerade when I got home and had a Large bowl of raising bran since it was the first thing I saw when I walked in the kitchen. Target Pace as per plan was 8:45 **edit**(pace was supposed to be 8:40) ended up being 8:44
Splits: 8:43, 8:45, 8:12, 8:21, 8:44, 8:45, 9:00, 8:36, 8:45, 8:43, 8:44, 8:42, 8:43, 8:42, 8:52, 8:48, 8:47, 9:16, 9:45, 8:00 Yeah Baby!
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