Joel contacted me around mid-week asking if I'd like to join him for a 30 mile run. I said yes. We went over our options, three times around Hefner, two times around Hefner and take the connector between Hefner and Overholser. From the time I discovered you could run between the two lakes, I've wanted to loop them both in one run. So we decided to loop both lakes. We estimated that would get us close to thirty miles. But since Joel worked near the course, we made an aid station stop there and that got us beyond 30 miles. We had planned to start at 5 a.m., but it was raining on my side of town so we started 20 minutes late. It was nice and cool then and we started off easily. Even when the sun came up it was still cloudy. When we got to Overholser it started to heat up and the clouds began to dissipate. We pushed on. Things went fairly well and when we got back to Hefner, we knew we had it made albeit at a very easy pace. We finished right at 31 miles in about 5:55, just under a 12 minute pace. We are both training for a twenty-four hour run in October.
Today I decided to do an easy six miles at Earlywine Park.
9 comments:
WOW!!!! yeah..."i'm just going to go out and do 31 miles!!!" You are a machine!!
very nice training run
that's what I call a long run
Dude, that is crazy mileage for a training run, heck, any run.
Easy long miles right? I'm sure you had a great run. We run the Mt Disappontment 50 miler saturday. Will tell all about it.
MJ
Good job. I need to get my long runs up! Maybe I will see you out at Hefner (you will be passing me probably)
You are a true runner, Reese, getting out there and running those kind of distances. Not for medals, or for a finisher's pin, etc. But just to do it.
You're very inspiring, thank you.
Reese, thankyou I'm training for NYC and I'm pretty sure I might just run Hartford in October as well.
You guys rock!
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