It wasn’t pretty but it had to be done.

I was disappointed in my run at Lake Placid. One reason was that I didn’t get my last long run completed and I just don’t think I had the long run fitness going into the race that I would need to last to the end. So I decided that this weekend I’d go out and get a 20mi run under my belt. Before that, on Saturday Nick and I had a thoroughly enjoyable ride up to Zephyr on a beautiful day. The ride was great until he turned us down Concession 3 for the trip home. You know you’re in for pain when you see the yellow signs at the side of the road warning of steep hills! No problem for the ‘Billy Goat’ he climbs those hills like they aren’t there. I don’t think he was even using his small ring! Not so easy for me.

I headed for the run on Sunday after a 2k swim. It was hot and I took my 2 bottle fuel belt with me. Running along 16th, I saw Nick turn out of the neighborhood and start heading in the same direction. I sped up to catch him and finally yelled out at him to let me catch up, I didn’t want to burn too many calories trying to catch up to him! It was good, we ran together up 10th Line until he reached his turn around point. I continued on to 19th and went west over to 30 and up to Stouffville. I stopped in Stouffville and drank 710ml of water and 710 of Gatorade, but I was already dehydrated, it was hot. I turned for home and was doing a 9:30/9:40 per mile pace until I hit about 16 and then slowed considerable. I ended up with a 10:00/mi pace overall.

Hopefully that run, after the marathon in LP will boost my run fitness for Louisville enough to give me a shot at breaking my 4:20 marathon time from 2007.