11.95mi, 2:00:17, 7 AUG 2014, Springfield, Virginia

Today is day 258 of the campaign.

iThink:
Erik Voeks, "What It Feels Like"
Above & Beyond feat. Oceanlab, "On A Good Day" (Daniel Kandi remix)
The Smiths, "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" from Complete Soundcheck at Glasgow Barrowlands, 1986

WX at 07 06:58 N 1 5.00 Fog/Mist CLR 66 64 95% NA NA 29.98 1015.5

Odometer 14A: 220.4mi

Z4. Average/max heart rate = 156/170

It had been a long time since I'd done a run of this length and it turns out, training at altitude isn't a substitute for training at distance. I was deluded by the first mile, and thought it would be equally fast, which I was dead wrong. This run was going to hurt after the first six miles, and it did. I felt better coming back, but I was also soaked through my shirt and I was exchanging heat better than when I did when I started. I didn't feel like I was going as slow as I did, but I guess I was.

Now, some of these times might be slow because it's summer, but I'm not sure that was actually the case if I look at my times from last summer. It could be my being tired, but I don't have any good explanations. In that sense, maybe it was a good thing I didn't decide to do a PT test while I was on leave.

There was no scenery whatsoever this morning. That was crap, but I was running in the dark for a sizeable chunk of the run, so that probably has something to do with it.

GMaps Pedometer says 12.31mi for this morning, but I'll call it even at 12.

Splits

SGMT AGGRGTE SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 0:08:50 08:50 08:50 08:50 1.00
1.00 0:18:27 09:37 09:37 09:14 2.00
1.00 0:28:09 09:42 09:42 09:23 3.00
1.00 0:38:27 10:18 10:18 09:37 4.00
1.00 0:48:31 10:03 10:03 09:42 5.00
1.00 0:58:41 10:11 10:11 09:47 6.00
1.00 1:09:00 10:18 10:18 09:51 7.00
1.00 1:19:24 10:25 10:25 09:56 8.00
1.00 1:29:41 10:17 10:17 09:58 9.00
1.00 1:40:12 10:30 10:30 10:01 10.00
1.00 1:50:08 09:56 09:56 10:01 11.00
0.95 2:00:18 10:11 10:43 10:04 11.95