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I haven’t done a long run in two weeks.  It’s really been bothering me.  I know I am way ahead of schedule in milage in order to be ready to run the marathon in December, however, when I set goals for myself it’s not really something I like to stray from.  Sometimes I realize I’m being a little militant with myself and cut myself a break.  The last two weeks I just haven’t been motivated to do my long run.  I wish I had a good reason.  My last long run (7 Miles) wasn’t that hard and actually went really smooth.  So I’m unsure what the hesitance was other than the fact that I didn’t want to.  None-the-less I missed my 8 mile run last week.  Which really didn’t bother me.  I figured one week was not a big deal since I am way ahead of any training schedule I’ve looked at online.  But then last weekend came and went and I didn’t do it again.  I have been running.  Just not more than 4 miles.  So yesterday I decided that instead of going to the gym this morning I’d get up early and run my 8 mile run.

Once I hit the road I was feeling good physically.  My first mile actually wasn’t as bad as it normally is.  I could tell I was running slow but since I haven’t run a long run in two weeks I figured slow and steady would get me to finish.  I’d say around mile 6 I was feeling really good and started thinking about trying to do 9 miles instead.  In the back of my head I knew I still had two miles to go before I hit the eight and I may just have been getting over ambitious.  So I kept thinking about it until I got to the point where I had to decide to go home and call it good at 8 or go for the 9.  Since I didn’t measure the extra mile out before my run I had to guess what would be a mile I didn’t want to get home and be just shy of 9 so I made sure to run down a couple extra courts.  I figured it was going to be over but I’d rather that happened than being less than what I wanted to do.  After getting home I mapped it out and it came up to 9.4 miles, which works out to about 11.5 min miles.  So like I said I knew I was running slow but all in all 1:48 mins to run 9.4 miles isn’t bad.  I know another run I did recently I was at 8.5 min miles for 3 miles.  I’m not sure what I need to do to get my distance speed faster.  In my head I’m thinking I can start working on speeding up once I get the distance closer to the marathon distance.