Twelve Miles

I noticed after my run on Saturday that I was starting to wear through the sole of my running shoes. So I broke out my final pair of Asics Gel GT-2170s (roughly two years ago I stocked up on six pairs as the model went out of production) which means that I'm going to have to find a new model of running shoes soon. Not looking forward to trying to find shoes that I enjoy as much.

The new shoes felt great on my first run, and I rocked a far better pace for my Monday 50 minute run (dropped a good 20 seconds per mile). Wednesday, I ended up feeling sick in the evening and didn't get to go for a run.

I decided prior to heading out on Saturday that I was going to go for 12 miles which would require a bigger change to my route. According to my schedule for preparing for the Urban Cow Half Marathon, I needed to hit 11 miles this week. I more so take that to mean that I need to run 110 minutes.

For some reason, I was thinking that I did 100 minutes the past two weeks (versus the 105 I actually did), so I was expecting to just need to run 110 minutes. As I was getting midway into the run, I realized that 110 minutes wasn't going to be enough, and I was trying to choose between 110 minutes or 12 miles. In the end, I decided to go with 12 miles which required 115 minutes.

My pace for the run ended up being actually the same as the past two weeks: 9:31 minutes/mile. Considering this run was farther and likely slightly harder, I'm happy that my pace didn't decrease. However, it would have been nice to see a slight increase considering the new shoes.

For the upcoming week, I plan to get back to my two 50 weekday runs. Not sure what I'm going to do for the weekend run. Probably should make this a baseline run of either 100 minutes or 11 miles. Probably the latter.