2:11 for 19 miles, 6:53 average, so pretty easy, mostly right around 7:00 flat with a couple mid-6:20s thrown in. My place to the 8th South entrance to the Jordan River Parkway Trail, down to the General Holm memorial trailhead at 3900 south (exactly 9.5 out on the Garmin), and then back. Garmin got screwed up really badly coming back through downtown (these things don't work at all with tall buildings around), so I'm just doubling the distance for 19 total (still far shorter than the 19.6 Mapmyrun calls it, which is probably fair considering that I tend to cut corners on training runs). I realized 2 miles into the run that I had literally only eaten 2 mini Reese's beforehand, but figured I'd be OK with the 3 gels I had on me. Did the first 10 at just a hair under 7:00 pace. I just did a hard workout tempo/VO2 workout 2 days ago and didn't want to overreach, so I decided to test marathon pace out for a bit as long as everything felt good, but back off as soon as it got tough. After 2 miles of MP, I was getting a headache due to lack of calories and just didn't feel super fluid, so I backed off and just finished the run at 7:00 pace, which was pretty darn easy. I felt fine until 16, but over the last 3, I felt super out of it and had a raging headache due to the lack of calories. That said, my pace only dropped a little bit on the uphills, and my legs/lungs were fine. This is the 2nd long run in a row in which I felt moderately to severely crappy at the end due to not paying attention to food intake beforehand, so I'm going to make sure I don't repeat that mistake next time.
Overall, this was a good week of getting the mileage up a little higher, and my legs feel solid. I'm going to keep the mileage a little lower this week as I get ready for the Haunted Half on Saturday, but I'll be ready to start working really hard once that's out of the way. :)
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