14 miles
Distance: 14 miles
Time: 1:55:00
After my aborted drive north yesterday I couldn't bring myself to go out in the blizzard conditions so, after failing to get up before work this morning to do it, I had no option but to run my weekly long run after work tonight. It was fairly breezy so some bits were wind behind, some bits wind against but it was nice and cold, which is just the way I like it when running a longer distance.
I have run this route twice before, on 19 Jan 2:08:12, on on 19 Feb 2:00:40 so today's run represents another welcome cut in time. I definitely pushed this run harder than previously, particularly on the homeward half, and I definitely finished stronger than I have before on a run of this distance. My 13.1 split was between 1:48 and 1:49, so hopefully with the adrenalin of competition I will be able to break my target time of 1:45 in a fortnight at the Edinburgh half marathon. Next Sunday I plan a dead slow 18 miler, which would be my longest training run ever.
The route is a simple out and back and, having measured it with my Garmin on 3 occasions I am confident it is precisely 7 out and 7 back, but today my Garmin went a bit Pete Tong on the way back and dropped 0.1 messing up my final split.
1. 8:22
2. 8:28
3. 8:27
4. 7:56 (miles 4 to 7 inclusive were 5 min threshold 2 min recovery)
5. 8:06
6. 8:09
7. 8:39
8. 8:23
9. 8:32
10. 8:11
11. 7:56
12. 8:22
13. 8:50
14. 6:49
Average pace: 8:17/mile
Time: 1:55:00
After my aborted drive north yesterday I couldn't bring myself to go out in the blizzard conditions so, after failing to get up before work this morning to do it, I had no option but to run my weekly long run after work tonight. It was fairly breezy so some bits were wind behind, some bits wind against but it was nice and cold, which is just the way I like it when running a longer distance.
I have run this route twice before, on 19 Jan 2:08:12, on on 19 Feb 2:00:40 so today's run represents another welcome cut in time. I definitely pushed this run harder than previously, particularly on the homeward half, and I definitely finished stronger than I have before on a run of this distance. My 13.1 split was between 1:48 and 1:49, so hopefully with the adrenalin of competition I will be able to break my target time of 1:45 in a fortnight at the Edinburgh half marathon. Next Sunday I plan a dead slow 18 miler, which would be my longest training run ever.
The route is a simple out and back and, having measured it with my Garmin on 3 occasions I am confident it is precisely 7 out and 7 back, but today my Garmin went a bit Pete Tong on the way back and dropped 0.1 messing up my final split.
1. 8:22
2. 8:28
3. 8:27
4. 7:56 (miles 4 to 7 inclusive were 5 min threshold 2 min recovery)
5. 8:06
6. 8:09
7. 8:39
8. 8:23
9. 8:32
10. 8:11
11. 7:56
12. 8:22
13. 8:50
14. 6:49
Average pace: 8:17/mile
posted by edinburghrunner at 8:03 pm
2 Comments:
Well done :-) I know what you mean about the Garmin, mines been playing up in the cold weather :-(
Great run! Your going to run faster in your marathon.
Yeah, it's cold over here too. It's suppose to get down to 50F tonight. Get out the jackets!!!!
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