Woke up too late to go on the club ride this morning but it's too nice out there to be cooped up indoors, so I went for a run instead - chose the long trail round the local woods as my route, which claims to be 7.5 miles (ie about 12km). Set my pacer for 5min/km, thinking that would be a sustainable pace. After 6km, roughly the halfway point, I was bang on that pace. Of course, the loop is mostly downhill on the way out, and mostly uphill on the way back...
I measured it at a touch over 13km on my Garmin, which included a small diversion where I missed a signpost, and it took me a total of 1:09:33. I'm pleased with that, especially as the terrain is quite heavy going in places - not to mention steep!
That's by far the longest I've run in one go for a very long time - probably since I had to do the cross country at school. Most enjoyable it was too.
I've now decided to set myself the goal of getting that down to under an hour - I reckon that should be quite achievable if I come at it fresh - my legs were feeling a bit heavy after my efforts on yesterday's parkrun. I also did about 50km on the Brompton yesterday afternoon.
I'm actually getting quite into this running lark.
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