Happy Don - Good Long Run

Gateway Trail 20 miles, about 50 degrees & breezy. A lovely run - I feel great! I finished in about 3:18, pace 9:54. It’s easily my best time for this distance in at least a year. Better yet, it didn’t feel like a race - I might have been able to go a little faster, and I’m sure that I could have kept going, though not at that pace. Toward the end I was walking part of the time.

Sunshine and Sweet Pea were out there too, running 14 miles, and we crossed paths 4 times. That's cool.

I did pause the watch twice, stopping for a porta-potty, but even if I included those pauses, the time was satisfactory. I need to finish a marathon in 4:30, pace 10:17, to qualify for Boston. I doubt that will happen at the next marathon, but now that I’m off dexamethasone, it might happen this year. I can hope!

Splits: 10:01, 9:41, 8:37, 10:26, 9:21, 9:29, 10:12, 9:34, 9:26, 9:01, 10:11, 2:56 (stop at car for water), 9:14, 8:38, 11:47, 8:37, 20:33 (2 mi), 10:22, 11:19, 9:27, total 3:17:52, pace 9:54. Some of the Gateway’s mile markers are slightly misplaced - I hope the overall distance is close.


This photo might have been taken on the Gateway Trail - we see turkeys there too. But this was taken at home out of our own window.