Sunday Long Run

For our long run on Sunday we met up at the Veteran's Memorial Park (same place I'll be starting my marathon in November). The goal was 8-10 miles. If you do 8 miles it's the solid line, if you want 10 you tack on the dotted portion in the map above. It's a nice course, relatively flat with a nice bridge incline part way through. I was feeling really good on Sunday because I took it a little slower this week. I started to feel tired around mile 6, but pushed through to 8. Then Coach Michael asked if I wanted to head back or do 10. I said "TEN!" But I need to change it up and do intervals of walk/run. He took that to mean I want to speed train, or at least I've been harassing him for making it feel that way; I actually quite enjoyed those last two miles. It helped make them go by faster. We did 1:1, 2:1 the entire time. The last set was 2 minutes of running and it was the hardest one, but I finished. Here are my totals. Distance: 10.2 miles. Time: 1:43 (10:05 pace).
Mile 1: 9:29          Mile 6: 9:54
Mile 2: 9:42          Mile 7: 9:59
Mile 3: 9:40          Mile 8: 10:04
Mile 4: 9:52          Mile 9: 12:39
Mile 5: 9:49          Mile 10: 10:29

Overall a really great run. I was excited that our last portion was along the water, however my view was more like the image above. It was extremely misty and foggy, so much so that I joked my hat was sweating because droplets were falling off of it.
I'm very excited by my progress. I'm running faster then ever before and I'm doing it for longer periods of time. No walk breaks (until mile 8 when we broke it down). If I keep this up I'm going to be so strong come marathon time!! I'm so proud of myself for how far I've come over the past couple years with my running. Still can't believe I'm going to do a marathon. I might start looking for a half just to see how far I've come. Gotta put those miles in once we start the marathon plan...which looks like this if I haven't already posted it.

http://runfastpensacola.blogspot.com/p/marathon-training.html

The actual breakdown of the page can be found on Coach Michael's website:
http://runfastpensacola.blogspot.com/p/marathon-training.html