Yesterday was my new longest run to date: 13.1 miles. I'm not happy with my pace at nearly 14-min/mile, but I already know a bunch of ways I screwed up in prep for the run. Not to be too detailed, but I got a crappy 4 hours of sleep or so the night before, didn't eat anything before I went out at 6:30 a.m. and in general felt sorry for myself for half the run and didn't want to be there. Hard to keep a level head when it's undernourished to begin with ...
On the bright side, I did finish it. I also did six days of exercise last week, including two-a-days on three of those days, with one of them being a ride and then a ride/run brick.
Lessons learned: Get enough sleep. Pay attention to pre-run nutrition. Figure out new ways to go zen on the run rather than get sucked into my head on a negative day.
This week's focus is a 4 with a magic mile (likely Friday instead of Saturday), and the next LD run is 14 miles on Sep. 8. I will be sure to get plenty of sleep, lay out my clothes and nutrition for the run and tackle that one with zest.
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