Easter Monday

It's Easter Monday so I get the day off work. Thank you collective bargaining agreement! (If only the CBA included stipulations about actually earning your pay). So I got up about my usual time and went for a long run. A little chilly at the start but otherwise the weather was perfect for a long run.  Last night when I planned my route I figured it out so that I could run 13.1 today if I wanted to.  But when I got to about mile 9 I knew it wasn't going to happen.  So I turned around and finished it off at 11.2 miles.  My longest run ever.  This one was hard.  I was definitely harder than the 10.48 mile run I did last month.  My average pace for that run was 8:33, for this one it was 8:26.  I strategically place my water bottle so that I drank from it between miles 4-5 and then again at miles 7-8.  Maybe if I had another one place between miles 10-11 I would have been able to go the distance to 13.1.  Oh well.  Maybe next time.