Going, going... but I'm back

I had planned on doing my long run this morning when I woke up. It was supposed to be 65 but with 97% humidity. I woke up and six and was tired but was ready to run. By the time I made it down stairs I realized it would be more wise to put off my run till thursday and get lots of office work done this morning. So I started working and enjoyed the quietness of the house before everyone gets up. Then Nathan got up so I put on his shows and let Heather sleep. It worked out good for all of us.

I got so much done at 10 I decided to go ahead and get my long run in. I packed 4 fig newtons and my phone on my water belt and I was off. My training plan called for 12 @ 9:05 m/mile so I wanted to do 4 warm up, snack, and then 5 miles at half marathon pace (or as close as I could get 8:00 m/mile) and the the remaining 3 at 9:05 (or limping home). I would have drinks of gatorade at even miles and 2 fig newtons at 4 and 8.

At mile 4 it was newton time and I imagined how funny I would look pulling a ziploc bag full of cookies and shoving them whole in my mouth while running. "Look at this big guy out here running Rose. He can't even run without needing a snack."

Splits:
1-8:56
2-9:01
3-8:56
4-8:54
5-8:07
6-8:17
7-8:01
8-9:12 (Bathroom break)
9-8:09
10-8:43
11-8:53
12-8:38

I forgot to turn the auto pause back on after my race on Saturday so I lost some time doing that.

1:44:46, 8:44 m/mile