@Laura - nice run! Any details?
It was all barefoot, but just around my familiar .93 mile pond loop. The first 10 miles were with my youngest daughter at a comfortable 10 - 10:15 mm pace. Around mile 15 I could feel myself slowing down gradually every mile, until mile 20 was almost 11:30, but my audio book ended and I put on some dance music and felt up to revving it up some and was pleased to see I could still comfortably work up a 9:44 mm pace after that many miles. This time. I don't think I could have done it on previous long runs when the distance was so new to me. Then my Garmin completely ran out of battery, and I don't think I finished mile 22 quite that fast, but it was strong and, as I said, encouraging. I felt like if I had another 4 miles to go, I could have managed it, but with everything going on here with my mom so sick, it seemed best to leave it at that. Thanks for asking.
Current report:
Thursday - spin bike 60 minutes in AM, swim in evening of 10 minute intervals x3, so 30 minutes of swimming.
Friday - 10 miles at very comfortable approx. 11 mm pace. 3 miles included all three youngest daughters, all of us barefoot going around the pond loop. I don't think there have been that many of us barefoot all at once there, but everyone is getting to know us so well, they just encouraged us in our running. One daughter ran the whole 10 miles with me. She was laughing, saying how she's going to go back to work and be asked about her weekend, and when she says she had fun running 10 miles with her mother, everyone will just get this uncomprehending look, because whose mother runs 10 miles?!
Saturday - 5 miles with medical tape on ball of one foot to cover a slight flesh wound. After hubby chose to watch a movie about Steve Prefontaine last night, I was inspired to my old roots of sprinting, which I accommodated by doing mile intervals. That is, miles 2 and 4 were on the fast side, but I would like to emphasize that I still made it a priority to run lightly and never push the speed so that my form was struggling because I was ragged. It all felt lovely with splits of
10:02
8:44
9:44
8:20
9:59
That makes 44 miles for the week for me, another new, slightly higher milestone for me. Should still be able to get a short swim in this afternoon. Then, rest day on Sunday to prepare for 24 miles on Monday! Yikes!