A nice long run today. Plan was to do the last 4-5 miles at marathon pace (6:52) after 15 or so at some sort of easy pace (round about 8ish).Picked a hilly course - elevation is the brown on the right. The red line is the rough elevation of the Edinburgh marathon course, so I am perhaps over prepared in terms of hill training!
Ran the first 15 miles with my friend as his last 19 miler in preparation for Boston. Averaged 7:48, with a couple "spirited" miles down in the high 6's but generally just kept things easy, especially on the uphills.
Then we split up and I went for the 6:52 miles. Started uphill and held 6:55 pace for the first mile, then as I started down I got down to 6:20 pace. Did 4.5m at 6:43 and then jogged in the last mile or so.
Total was 22.4 miles at 7:34 pace, which is 3:18 marathon pace. Given how hilly this run was compared to Edinburgh I am feeling very good about 3:10 as a comfortable goal (7:15 pace) and 3:00 as a stretch goal (6:52 pace).
94 miles total for the week, which means over 200 in the last 2 weeks. Day off tomorrow and then a cutback week, which will likely be around 60 miles (Seems weird that 60 miles is a cutback week now!).
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