Two Ways

There are two ways to look at today's long run:
1. I ran 16ks (most ever!!) albeit at at pretty slow pace (av. 7.20/k). Although if you don't include kilometres 1, 6 and 16 the pace was just over 7 mins/k.
2. I ran for almost 2 hours!!

Either way it was a pretty comfortable run. A little warm still even though I waited till 5 pm and quite humid as a lot of cloud was blowing in. I had a bad stitch most of the way, probably due to drinking juice whilst eating yoghurt at lunchtime (D warned me that I'd feel sick later - smarty pants!).

I decided to go up to the 5k then turn around and attack the 'lovely shady hill' while I still had some puff, then back to the 2 k, back to the 4k, etc (too complicated to describe) for a total of 16ks. This meant that I wasn't running too far from home either just in case I felt yuck like last week and decided to cut it short. I still had plenty of hills to contend with although it was hard to turn back the other way a couple of times.

Boys had their last cricket matches today so I might be able to do my long runs in the morning on Saturdays between now and soccer starting.