Sunday Long Run

36.0k 3:18:06. HR Avg 144 Max 163 Avg Pace 5:31
Course: Upto Bowen Bridge and back and then Gap Cycle Path.
Start Time: 5:35 pm Temp 24C.
Session Type: Long Run

I was out of bed at 4:00am but as I was changing into my gear it starting bucketing down with rain. This lasted about half hour. My rain gauge measured 40mm which is just what the garden needed but I was prepared to wait before starting my run.

Finally got going at 5:30 and it was only lightly raining. This lasted for another half an hour. Once the rain stopped although it was cooler, it was still very humid. Plan was not to get too overheated so that I could get the distance today and not have to pull out after 20K like last Sunday. The first 25 K was up to Bowen Bridge at Herston and back. When I got back home, I changed my socks because they were soaking wet and had a big drink of Gatorade. I also strapped on the music player now that it didn't look like rain and set off for the 11k loop on the local cycle path.

That made for 36k which is pleasing. The legs felt good but I was very weary at the end of it. The last hill up my street to home was a killer.

That makes 95.2K for the week. I have twice before done 95k in a week. They were in consecutive weeks in 1985. The first week starting 27/5/85, I did a 35k run with My Wife in 3:14:23. The next week, we did another 35k run in 3:10. Those times are not that different from today's run and were done in much cooler conditions. Six weeks later I ran my marathon PB of 2:53 and My Wife did her PB of 3:50. No chance of that happening in Canberra this year. One week soon I am going to do a 100k and claim a new Weekly PB total.

Feb Total: 139.3K
YTD : 398.4K