22 Mile Week and 61 Days till the Long Beach Marathon!
O.K. not a big leap. I went from 18 miles last week to 22 miles this week…but hey…it’s an increase.
I was stuck at a swim meet all weekend, but I was able to sneak away for a couple of hours Sunday afternoon and got in a 12 mile run on the river bed.
I checked my Garmin Training Center software. The last time I ran 12 miles was February 1 when I ran the Surf City Half Marathon!
This was a slow 12 miler with several short walk breaks throughout the run. I pushed my self to keep running and not to break into a walk.
The longest continuous run period was 1.6 miles.
My time was 2 hours 19 minutes. This is worse than my “Slowest 12 mile run in 3 years” post from June 21, 2008 by a minute! http://myultralife.com/?p=246. The only difference is that last year I had run 34 miles on Fathers day the weekend before!
With just 61 days to prepare for the Long Beach Marathon I know I need to keep increasing my mileage, so I’ll end this now and slip on the running shoes and see if I can get in a 6 miler before dinner.
