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August 19, 2007

20 miles in mid-August

Thursday night I wrote a decent-length blog entry about how things had been going this week; mainly about how I used to gripe about summer marathon training but now I think it's easier to deal with the heat and humidity (slow down!) than it is to deal with all of the difficulties that winter training throws at you in the form of darkness and coldness. Getting up at 4:45 sucks no matter what time of year it is, but it sucks a LOT worse when it's freezing outside. Summer outfits are easier to put together and my hands are never in PAIN or become completely useless during the summer. And I can go to breakfast without my body plunging into a post-run hypothermic state in the summer. Blabbity Blah Blah. It was a riveting post. And then my computer froze up and I just went to bed rather than recreate it.

So today was 20 miles. It wasn't nearly as easy as the 18 last week, although some of that was due to a mental state due to circumstance - feeling like I was running somebody else's pace the whole time. It was also harder because I just couldn't seem to get in enough fluids. I was so thirsty the entire time. So I stopped several times to drink a lot of water or buy some gatorade, and getting started again was always hard. And I was alone for a lot of it. Early on I made the decision to run with people who were only three quarters of what I was doing, and I second- guessed it nearly the entire time I ran with them, feeling like they were going too fast for what I wanted to do. So I made the decision to go a really hilly route so that they'd go a different way and I could go alone! So I was alone but unstressed.

It was the end of another long Pfitzinger week, and we get a real cutback week this week. I'm going to enjoy it!

Posted by jenandmats at August 19, 2007 9:01 PM