To get to Twenty-Six Point Two: Milestone Day- Longest Run

I've decided that I need to slow down my social schedule a little bit. Last week I was busy every. single. night with some event or commitment or another and it all became too much. It's fine going out and doing something, but I need to do so in moderation and on a low key kind of scale.

Thursday I did a simple workout DVD, mostly because I was a little nervous about my run that I had Saturday (today). And then Friday was a rest day.

Friday was also my monthly Wine Club gathering with a good group of friends and this month I was hosting. Since I knew I had a big run the next day, I made my menu around something that would not only taste good, but also be very energizing for me. Insert homemade basil pasta and baked pesto chicken.

After a great evening catching up with my friends, it was clean up, setting of the alarm, and off to bed for me. After struggling with my alarm, I was finally off to sleep.

Gus Gus was finding 4:30am a great time to start meow'ing for food and it started my morning off on a slower start. Around 8:30am I finally got myself out of bed. I was happy to find my ironman water bottle belt so I was able to fill up two small water bottles to wear around my waist; had a quick breakfast; took a couple Tylenol and a deeeeeeep breath. This would be my LONGEST run ever.

For the most part my run felt really good, and the first half I was at a great pace, and was hitting all the crosswalk signs in my favor. I set a PR in my half marathon time (well not my BEST, but my best in the last couple years). But.. I think I may have been pushing it too hard.

My brother in law sent me a link to his friends advice for running longer distances, and it said that when you first start out on them that you should go a couple minutes slower than what you hope your marathon pace to be. My entire 16 miles was under 11 minutes/miles. And I completed the whole thing in just under 3 hours.

What's worse about the whole thing, is around mile 12, all I could think about was, am I even going to remember the experience of running the Boston Marathon? I find on my long runs, I couldn't tell you anything about them, just that I did it, and I finished it.

I do remember being extremely annoyed with more pedestrians today... because honestly... they're stupid. Get. Out. Of. My.Way... and stop walking in cursive.

I definitely am starting to feel the familiar pain in my knees, and as I'm sitting here typing this I can feel it. I'm hoping by tomorrow it will start to subside, but I'm also thankful my training allows for recovery after these runs.

I'm sorry this post is a little short, but I'm exhausted and like I said, I kind of blacked out during the run.