In the mood to KICK SOME BUTT

I am VERY proud of this long run. I have been saying for a couple weeks that I am having some running burnout. This was just what I needed. I need a feel good proud running moment. Who cares if it was just during a training run. That still counts in my mind. I really did not want to do a long run at all this week. Yesterday I kept going back and forth on where I was going to do it. I ran my 10 miles yesterday around the neighborhood, and so I really didn't want to do my 20 here as well. I also didn't want to waste a ton of extra time driving up to the Monon just to run by myself. It wasn't until this morning when I made up my mind. The neighborhood it was. My big loop is 1.8 miles. I had to do 11 loops plus some to get to 20. I couldn't go out until after the kids were off to school. The weather was good. I wore my arm warmers for the first half and then took them off. I got rained on but it was short lived and probably happened b/c I had my shirt on that says something about how we run in rain, snow, wind. It was also super windy (15mph). I stopped (very very briefly) only twice to take a gel and quick drink. Here are my splits.......

Mile 1:7:57
Mile2 7:56
Mile 3 8:01
Mile 4 7:53
Mile 5 7:56
Mile 6 7:52
Mile 7 7:53
Mile 8 7:49
Mile 9 7:45
Mile 10 7:45
Mile 11 7:39
Mile 12 7:41
Mile 13 7:42
Mile 14 7:44
Mile 15 7:45
Mile 16 7:41
Mile 17 7:32
Mile 18 7:37
Mile 19 7:31
Mile 20 7:26

Darn that mile 3. Would have been nice to see all 20 in the 7's::)) NO seriously.....I am soooo happy about this run! I am also soooo happy I don't have another 20 miler for 2 weeks!  Oh and my time at 13.1 miles was 1:42:34. That is just over a minute faster than my fastest half marathon time!

Happy training everyone!!!!!