Final Long Run

The weather did not cooperate with me this weekend, so I had to run 10 miles on the treadmill. Universal Sports played the last 10 Ironman World Championship races back-to-back on New Year’s Day, and our TiVo recorded most of them. So I was able to watch those while I ran, which helped with the boredom somewhat. I was actually surprised at how it went, once I passed the 4 or 5 mile mark. I usually have to really push myself to keep running past that point when I’m on the treadmill, but really had no problem with it. And if we hadn’t had something else scheduled for the morning, I might have tried going for 12.

So now that the race is less than a week away, I just have one more easy run tonight, and a short tempo run on Wednesday. I may try to get in a few easy miles Thursday or Friday as well, just to keep from getting stale.