5:30 am. Met at Ryan's house this morning, since he is going camping tonight he talked me into doing our long run to work this morning. This is actually my longest run until TOU, not sure why it's 5 weeks out instead of 3 but it is. We decided to run without headlamps which made the first 3 miles very slow, dodging construction cones and dirt holes in the dark, Averaged around 7:30/mile for the first 3, Went down around Thanksgiving point and headed out on the River Trail pace picked up to closer to 7:00/mile. Headed out to Redwood road and up and over Camp Williams, that was rough but it was still coolish so not horrible. Coming down Redwood from Camp Williams was very nice, we made up lots of time there. Went and found the River Trail again and followed it in the rest of the way to work, there was a point at mile 19 where the trail ended and we had to go back up a huge hill through neighborhoods, very cruel joke. Ended up at the gym at 22.1 miles in 2:37:05, 7:05/mile avg pace. Not to bad considering the slow start and all the uphill. Very happy to have this run done and under my belt. I can tell my high mileage is paying off, normally I bonk around 18-20 miles but even though I was definately tired by the end I never did bonk.
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