An absolutely gorgeous day greeted me this afternoon. 70 degrees, a light SW wind at 10 mph, and sunny skies was the weather today. I didn’t get into town until 17:00 last night so yesterday was a wash but I feel relatively confident about the exam I took. The Indy Mini-Marathon is just under 2 weeks away. I am definitely not as focused for it as I was the St. Louis Marathon but I would like to put in a good time and maybe achieve a PR. So I wanted to put in a longer run today. My mileage has really tapered off and I am a little worried about 13.1. Normally this is the start of the 5K season but I still have to get some more mileage in for the half then I can cut back.
I ran to the other side of Washington Park and back totaling just over 11 miles. It felt good to wear shorts and a t-shirt and to work up a sweat because of radiant heat, not because of wearing too much clothing. I think I even got a little tan on my legs; or it might just be dirt. It kind of looks the same you know. I could use a little color to offset my pasty legs. Anyway, I averaged 08:09/mile which is not bad considering that includes stopping for stop lights and walking. My auto-pause is still turned off from the Marathon. So a relative fast 11 miles to go with a beautiful day. Upon my return, the kids were asleep and the wife was on the computer. I could just sit in the bask of a good run, watch the Paris Marathon recap, and feel groovy.
