Yesterday I ran 10 miles. It was the longest run since my half marathon when I hurt my foot (and still finished with a 7:12 mile!) It went great. My longer runs are now made up of 3 and 4 mile loops with a water station set up in my front yard that I pass each loop. The excitement right now though is not the 10 mile run that I did in 1:12:29 (a 7:14 mile), but my first bloomsday race is this weekend!
Bloomsday is an odd distance - 12K or 7.46 miles, but it is a race that (I'm told) every runner in the northwest must run. So I am signed up to run the race - along with 54,000 other runners! I am starting in the third wave (yellow) which I had to qualify for. I doubt this will be an annual race for me, but it is a race, like the marathon, that I will be excited to have in the "done it" list! My goal is to finish in under 53:00 or a 7:06 mile. Earlier this week I ran 5 miles at a 6:48 mile, so I'm optimistic. I found a race calculator that says I should finish right at 52:00 or a 6:57 mile, but that doesn't count doomsday hill which is a one mile hill towards the end of the run!
I will post once I have results from Sunday's run!
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