Day 2 Of The Double Long In Boston – Colder and Faster

Man – I crushed this run. Yesterday’s 10 miles was in 1:40:22. I covered a little more today (10.51) in the same time. I started off a little slower – I felt sluggish for the first few miles but picked it up at about mile 4 when I warmed up. At some point I was flying – solidly turning in sub 10′s and getting under 9′s, even with an 8:2 run:walk pattern.

The hill and altitude running in Keystone in December seems to have paid off nicely. Plus, I’m about 15 pounds lighter than I was in October. My body feels different when I’m running, and moving at sub-10′s feels natural again, which is awesome.

It was unbelievably fucking cold today. Yesterday was cold (in the 20′s), but today was under 10 and with windchill was probably -143 degrees. There was a two mile stretch against the wind (from mile 2 to mile 4) that just hurt – the sun was in my eyes as is was moving down in the sky, the wind was 20 – 30 miles an hour, and the snot was freezing before it dripped out of my nose. Both of my water bottles froze by mile 7 which was a drag, but just helps you understand how cold it was.

My cold seems to be gone. I’m still a little drippy but feel fine. We’ll know tomorrow if it’s completely decimated, but this time I think the running helped.

My coach Gary offered up the idea of a 15 mile on Saturday followed by a 10 mile on Sunday run next week. Sounds like fun!