14 miles

Apparently, I looked at my labels and this is my first 14 mile training run!

Did it up by Luke's parents house again. But there were a lot of things going against me on today's run. I only had a bagel & cream cheese around 10am. And I ran at 2pm. I didn't have any fuel to take with me on the run. I didn't have a way to take liquid with me on the run. I really didn't prepare as well as I thought I did when I packed.

I only wore my winter running tights, a short sleeve shirt, a pullover and my gloves. I took off around 2pm, with a baggie of normal jelly beans & some gummy worms and my cell phone in the baggie. I thought I could safety pin it on my tights but alas, that didn't quite work out. So I had to hold it in my hands. That wasn't as fun as I thought it could be.

Everything was fine in the run. I tried to intake some jelly beans at mile 4 (thus the pause) but I had to spit it out a few minutes later since it wasn't as soft as I had hoped & didn't have any water to help get it down. The hills kinda hurt me more than they did in the 10 mile run. I did after all go from 10 miles to 14 miles without a 12 mile run in between. My pace was pretty good during the first half of course. But the second half it got slower, which is understandable. Towards the end of the run, I started to eat snow cause my mouth was so thirsty. I didn't care that it had specks of dirt in it and made my mouth really numb.

I finished up the run with a 9:44 min/mi pace but as you'll see below it wasn't at a consistent pace. I think next week with my 16 miles, I'll be running on Great Western Trail. I want my flatness back... Though I have a sneaking suspicion that these hills are making me faster & my legs stronger!

I got back about 10 minutes before Luke expected me so that was good. He promised that we could go for Shamrock Shakes after I got back. So I got my Shamrock Shake!!! Though he did say before the run that if I walked, no shakes for me! I did walk but as I pointed out, I went from 10 miles to 14 miles! So he let me go. :-) I was also dreaming of water with ice in it as well as chocolate milk. When I got done, I managed to get out chocolate milk and Luke was nice enough to make me a glass. And I drank it so very fast! Then had another glass of milk immediately afterwards. I think that was my first glass of cow's milk in almost 6 years!

Oh when I got in the shower, I found out rather quickly that I had a chafing mark on my lower back tattoo that I guess was caused by my tights or underwear. Never had it there before. But it burned hardcore at first because I think of the sweat that went into it from my back. I had to put a band-aid on it as it was rubbing against my jeans too much.

Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 840 ft Location: Cherry Valley, IL Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 03/06/10 Up/Downhill: [+816/-816] Time: 02:30 PM Difficulty: 3.7 / 5.0 Weather: Fair 43 F temp; 55% humidity 43 F heat index; winds S 7 Performance Distance: 14.01 miles Time: 2:16:24 Speed: 6.2 mph Pace: 9' 44 /mi Calories: 1493 Map Elevation (ft) Pace (min/mile) Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Elevation Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 8' 45 -0' 59 6.8 +0.7 +10 ft 2 9' 06 -0' 38 6.6 +0.4 +27 ft 3 8' 59 -0' 45 6.7 +0.5 -23 ft 4 8' 56 -0' 48 6.7 +0.5 -7 ft 5 9' 15 -0' 29 6.5 +0.3 -14 ft 6 9' 33 -0' 11 6.3 +0.1 -33 ft 7 9' 47 +0' 03 6.1 -0.0 +36 ft 8 9' 33 -0' 11 6.3 +0.1 -60 ft 9 10' 01 +0' 17 6.0 -0.2 +10 ft 10 10' 02 +0' 18 6.0 -0.2 -16 ft 11 10' 38 +0' 54 5.6 -0.5 +14 ft 12 11' 39 +1' 55 5.2 -1.0 +10 ft 13 10' 47 +1' 03 5.6 -0.6 +33 ft end 10' 09 +0' 25 5.9 -0.3 +13 ft Versus average of 9' 44 min/mile

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