I set out this morning hoping to run 18 miles. The last two weekends I've run 15 and 16 miles, so why not? So at 6:00am I ran west on the W&OD trail for 9 miles (just past Rt. 7) and then turned around to come back.
Unfortunately right after I finished the 16th mile I started to feel a little nauseous. I'm not sure if it was from dehydration or from having eaten 4 GU gels along the run, but it made me decide to stop. And it was just as well... I was pretty tired!
I think that my runs during the week were too long. I'd run 7, 5 and 8 miles on Tues, Wed, and Thurs. I really need to not get carried away with my weekday runs and remember that I want to improve my distance on the weekends. The Hal Higdon plan calls for runs of 4, 7 and 4 miles (eventually 4, 8 and 4) on T, W, Th, but as always I get ambitious and want to do more. I'm going to tone it back from now on and save my mojo for the weekend long run.
Still, all in all, I'm happy with my run. I averaged out to the exact same pace as I ran last week's 16 miles. And I never once thought about stopping before the 16 mile mark (although I needed a pee break in mile 13). I think I can say that I'm now comfortable at that distance. (knock wood)
Oh, and I wanted to share with you my latest thrift shop treasure... a brand new tec shirt by Brooks. :-)
Unfortunately right after I finished the 16th mile I started to feel a little nauseous. I'm not sure if it was from dehydration or from having eaten 4 GU gels along the run, but it made me decide to stop. And it was just as well... I was pretty tired!
I think that my runs during the week were too long. I'd run 7, 5 and 8 miles on Tues, Wed, and Thurs. I really need to not get carried away with my weekday runs and remember that I want to improve my distance on the weekends. The Hal Higdon plan calls for runs of 4, 7 and 4 miles (eventually 4, 8 and 4) on T, W, Th, but as always I get ambitious and want to do more. I'm going to tone it back from now on and save my mojo for the weekend long run.
Still, all in all, I'm happy with my run. I averaged out to the exact same pace as I ran last week's 16 miles. And I never once thought about stopping before the 16 mile mark (although I needed a pee break in mile 13). I think I can say that I'm now comfortable at that distance. (knock wood)
Oh, and I wanted to share with you my latest thrift shop treasure... a brand new tec shirt by Brooks. :-)
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