We did our long run tonight, since it was the only time we could find someone to watch our kids. I'm definitely not a fan of the evening long runs; I'm always tired (plus it's hot!). But better an evening run together than a morning run alone.
Nasty wind tonight--very, very nasty. It was blowing so hard that I felt like we could have gone faster at a walking pace some of the time. But on the other hand, the wind kept it cooler (about 66 degrees) so that was the silver lining.
Same long run as the last couple weeks; we'll probably keep running that and just adding length, since it's got a good mix of hills.
We tried to keep the pace under 9/mile, and were pretty successful most of the time, but we ended up stopping to walk twice and once for water: stopped around mile 5.5 and walked for a few hundred yards to ease the weird leg cramps from running up the suicide hill against the wind, stopped about mile 7.5 (after running two miles straight into the wind; both of us were having trouble swallowing because our mouths were so dry, so we walked and coughed for a ways, and then we stopped about half a mile after that at a drinking fountain. Thank goodness, because we were completely parched from the wind; I don't know why either of us didn't think to grab a water bottle. I'm not too stressed about the stops, since I can't run while I drink anyway (unless I want to be coughing and spitting for the next half mile), so I'll have to walk through the water stops.
STATS: 9 miles; 8:55ish/mile (started out at 7:52/mile, running around 9: 13/mile at the very end). Extremely strong winds!!
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