Today was my first long run (over 5 miles) in about 6 weeks. I was shooting for the scheduled 9 miles, but with keeping with my new learned lesson, I stopped after 7.5 because of some hunger/thirst pains in my side. I also decided to not pay too much attention to my pace as long as I was keeping it over the "easy" pace of 10:37 and under the the "long" pace of 9:37. I kept a pretty steady 10 minute mile for most of the run, which isn't too bad since I think the FIRST program doesn't account for the hills, heat, and humidity of Atlanta! Now that I've set the benchmark for my long runs, I'm going to continue to try and speed it up and am thinking of purchasing one of the drink belts so I can drink some while running to avoid those thirst cramps. If I'm using my long runs as practice, then I think my key mile to intake some Gatorade or the running jellybeans for the first time is mile 6.5 or 7.
No yoga tomorrow because of Mother's Day, but I'm hoping to squeeze in the KimFire #2 workout from KimF for this weekend before brunch with the ladies.
Here's today's run:
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