14 Miles:
Last Sunday (5/20/2018), I woke up at 6AM (not too early but early for me) to make sure I could fit in a long run that I planned to do the day before. I thought about trying to run 20 miles… but settled with 14 miles. The heat, lack of extra gel packets, and time, kept me from putting in anymore miles. Overall it was a good start for me and it felt great running over ten miles. The miles from 0-8 flew by on the .5 mile gravel track I was running on. After that I should I have taken off away from the track to decrease the boredom, but I stuck around just to tick off the miles. Lesson learned – mix it up.
Nutrition:
Prerun: Instant Nescafe Coffee with Silk Almond Milk, Everything bagel with cream cheese.
During: 1.5 Bottles of water (33oz), 2x Clif Shot Citrus Energy Gel.
Post: Bottle of water and mixed fruit smoothie.
During the run I focused on maintaining my pace for the first 6 miles, trying to set a new 10K PB. I forget about the .2, so I missed setting it 🙁 Anyways, after the 6th mile I dropped my pace, ran over to the park bench where my bottle and gels sat. After taking a quick sip of water, I slid the gel out from under the rubber-band on the water bottle and took off running. As you see in the splits below my pace did drop after the 6th mile. I was trying to keep my HR below/around 160.
Then around mile 10 I picked up both the bottle and the last gel and kept running. Around mile 10-11 I finished the second citrus gel and kept taking sips of water until mile 12, when I filled up the bottle again from a water fountain near the public pool. From there I finished the run sipping occasionally till the end.
-thebidon
