Sundays are the pinnacle of our training routine, the long run. Each week we plan on upping the ante and increasing our distance from the short runs on Wednesday and Friday. It was another beautiful day and it was time to go 4 miles. This was longer than either of us had run.....perhaps ever, or at least since we were teenagers!
We had no real route, we just hit the pavement in Arbutus and decided to see where it took us. We ran to Linden Ave and went up the hill and around to Maiden Choice and back into Arbutus. The first mile wasn't so bad but after that we fought hard. Luckily much of the 2nd mile was downhill.
Once we reached the 3rd mile, a couple rest walks occurred but we pressed on. Finally, as we hit 3 1/2 miles and turned around for home the burning legs and the heavy breath set in! But we pushed and made it to 4 miles. It took us just under 50:30 to run the 4 miles and I'm happy with that! I figure if we can keep that pace for 6.2 miles, we'll be nicely under 1:20:00 for our 10k and that's peachy with me! (though I'm secretly rooting to be under 1:15:00!)
Two side notes. I'm impressed with our splits, in the picture you can see they were very even and got a touch slower each mile. I'm not an expert but I feel that in distance running (yes, that's distance running for us!) keeping those splits even is a good thing. Also, we tried something new....Gu! Amy bought some runner's Gu at Road Runner Sports and we split a pack. It was salted caramel or something. We chased it with plenty of water. Amy claims to not like it and we both felt like it was in our throats at time. I may try it again since we bought two packs. :)
Onto the gym tomorrow and then a day of rest before we try to up our runs to 11 miles total next week!
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