Long (?!?) Run

I never thought I would say this, but today my long run was 10 miles and it didn't seem long.  Seriously.  Last weekend was VERY challenging and I was really looking forward to going "only 10" this week.


Jen, Melanie, Rhonda, and myself met up at Longleaf right around 5:30.  Rhonda landed up not running with us after being sick and having car issues in the morning.  Sometimes it is just not in the cards.  I think that is the one of the things that I have learned from this marathon training - is to BE flexible.  Sometimes you can not follow that plan - work, life, colds, kids, significant others, etc... get in the way sometimes.  And it is OK! 


The other thing I have learned during this marathon training is that my speedwork is going to have to wait until marathon training is over.  Now that I am 30 (ahem)...it's become my goal to train smarter and not necessarily harder.


Here are the mile splits for today:

Split	Time	Distance	Avg Pace
Summary	1:37:43.0	10.00	9:46.1
1	9:42.4	1.00	9:42.3
2	9:36.2	1.00	9:36.1
3	9:29.5	1.00	9:29.5
4	9:40.5	1.00	9:40.5
5	9:42.6	1.00	9:42.6
6	9:45.2	1.00	9:45.2
7	9:53.2	1.00	9:53.2
8	10:01.7	1.00	10:01.7
9	9:47.8	1.00	9:47.8
10	10:01.5	1.00	10:01.5
11	:2.0	0.00	11:38.5

Overall I was VERY pleased with the pace and how I felt.  It was a great run and it went by FAST.  I was telling Jen and Melanie how I have been stalking the Space Coast Marathon website recently to read about any updates and just be a weirdo, in general.  Here is a link of you want to join me: http://www.spacecoastmarathon.com  But I saw this picture that I just had to share:

How funny is that?!?

There is now only 70 days until Space Coast and needless to say I'm getting pretty pumped about the whole weekend. Ahhh! :)  Now it's time to get back to some college football action - have a great weekend y'all!