Today’s run, as long as we finished it, was going to be a new PR itself, since we would have run our farthest distance yet…17 miles! Well, of course, we did it! It surprisingly went really well. The last mile was a little tough, but still finished it in a respectable 10:37:90, after already running 16 miles.
We did today’s 17 mile run at Quiet Waters Park in Annapolis, which I believe is a tougher trail than the WB&A Trail we ran last week’s 16 miler on. Quiet Waters has more hills to run and we run them every time around. I think the hills get steeper every time too! ;) Of course, they really don’t, but it sure feels like it, especially the third time around.
This morning it actually felt cold before we started running. It was only in the 50’s when we started with low humidity as well. My hands were actually cold when we started running, but didn’t stay that way long. It warmed up over the 3 hours we were running, but only got to about 74 degrees by the end of the run, so it was still very nice out for running.
We had a few new PR’s throughout today’s run, which definitely made today’s run one of our best runs yet!
Here are our splits for today’s run:
Miles 1-5: 58:28:11
Miles 6-10: 55:38:13
Miles 11-16: 1:03:59
Mile 17: 10:37:90
Total 3:08:43---PR
The entire run was a new PR for us, as 17 miles is the furthest we have ever run at one time. The time we finished the 17 miles in was another PR for us. The first time we ran 16 miles, which was at Quiet Waters, we ran it in 3 hours and 12 minutes. Today we ran 17 miles, on the same trail, in just under 3 hours and 9 minutes! Another whole mile in 3 less minutes!
Another new PR was for miles: 1-16, which we ran in 2 hours, 58 minutes, and 5 seconds. Our previous PR for 16 miles was 3 hours and 1 minute, so we cut off about 3 minutes, and on what I believe is a hard course!
We only have 2 more weeks of long Saturday run, before we start tapering off for the Baltimore Marathon! We are only 33 days away from running our first marathon. Here is where the excitement starts to set in. In just over a month we will be marathon runners!
Today's run summary:
Miles---17
Time---3:08:43
Cool Down---21:17:56
Total Time---3:30:00
Total Calories---2843
Total Miles Run---235
Next run: Monday, September 13---5 miles!
Thanks for following our journey!
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