It's a little too bright for my liking, but it was between this and a Nathan hand-held, and the hand grip on the Amphipod was tons more comfortable.
So I thought I was going to kick ass on my long run today since I now had some liquid on me, unlike last week's long run. I also packed a couple of fun-sized Snickers in the handheld for fuel. Oh, and I ate a regular sized Snickers pre-run. Sooooooo much tastier than a Clif bar. I also dropped a Nuun tablet (fruit punch flavor) in my water.
Well, the run sucked.
There were many a walking breaks. I don't remember at which mile they started, but it was way before Mile 9, unlike last week, maybe Mile 6. Sigh.
I ran out of water at the halfway point. And I was so thirsty and so dying that this time I actually went inside the Community Center at the start of Mile 10 to refill my bottle. I didn't care that the receptionist looked at my sweat-drenched self all weird. Their cold water from the water fountain was heaven!
I actually paused my garmin before I went in the Community Center, which is why Mile 10 probably doesn't read 15 minutes. Then I trudged the rest of the way back home.
I saw my neighbor walking her dog at the bottom of my last hill. I said hello to her and then proceeded to run up the hill. Thank goodness for her, because I think I didn't want to lose face by her seeing me crawling up that thing, hence the decent (for me) last mile at 12:12.
I'd like to run the marathon at an 11:30-12:00/mile pace. I'm wondering if my Insanity work-outs are interfering with my running times. I think they did during my February half earlier this year. I was doing Insanity in conjunction with my half training and my half turned out to be slower than I had hoped. I stopped doing Insanity and my half in June was much better. I started Insanity again this week. Maybe I'll just try and cut back.
Anyway, that was my long run today. 16 miles next week. Oy!
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