Week Twelve - Long Run
What a difference one week and 15-20 degrees can make!
Perhaps my training up to this point is finally starting to pay dividends, because this was the best long distance fun I've ever had. I felt great the entire way. And my turn-around point was, triumphantly, at Cleveland and Ford Parkway, in the heart of our old Highland Village neighborhood where we lived when Sarah was born in 1997. I still love that part of St. Paul, and it has hardly changed.
But the conditions could not be beat, either, so I'm sure it wasn't only my training that resulted in such a great run. It was 60 degrees, very breezy, and overcast. I was sweating but did not feel hot. Unlike last week when I felt like I was melting in the sun!
I sure hope it's cloudy and cool on June 16...
Run stats:
- 14.67 mi.
- 2:25:47
- 9:56 min./mi.
- 1922 calories
- Miles to date: 203.28