I ran 16 miles in 2:15:25. I could feel the toll of yesterday's bike ride, and probably the week of hard running. My legs were not fresh from the very beginning. Interestingly, after about mile 7 I felt more in my groove and more comfortable. My heart rate did stay at about 80-81% of max for the entire run, which is good. I know I can sustain a faster heart rate and did not feel tired in that sense. Today, it was just very tired legs.
This was a hard run psychologically. Knowing you have had a great week of training and could probably skip today without much consequence played on my mind, as well as during my run thinking about making it a shorter run. But this is the last long run before the race so it is very important to those wonderful mitochrondria. Wouldn't want to disappoint them : )
Total mileage for the week = 48
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