Sunday, July 30, 2006

Essential Marathon Preparation - The Long Run: Part 7

This morning, I got up at 6 am and did a 19 km long run. I managed to finish in 111 mins, a 3 minute improvement on the same course a few weeks back. Hopefully it will set me up for longer distances in future.

Something of concern, I should probably refrain from running in the dark, because of all the horrible things that have been happening to people in the news lately. Sometimes I might encounter a drunken idiot along the way. But I find that there isn't much time in the day to schedule these long runs, due to work or other activities. I'll figure something out.

The run went very well. I didn't have any trouble breathing and I kept a good pace and rhythm, keeping within my 6 mins/km splits. However a few hours after the run I'm feeling a little sore in my legs, particularly the thigh area. Might need to do some strecthing, methinks.

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