Saturday, February 12, 2011

Double digit day

It was warm enough to run outside today, so I went down to English Landing Park, where there's a nice trail along the Missouri River. Unfortunately, the condition of the park trail ranged from muddy to ice covered to snowpacked.
I decided to run up to the college track and do a couple miles there, but it was covered with snow, too. I finally just ran east on the highway about three miles, then south a little over a mile, and then back. Total mileage was 10.16 in 1:36:26, an average of 9:30. That's my longest run since April 2010.
Ten miles was plenty long enough. My conditioning needs quite a bit more work before I'm in race form. Mainly, I need to get outdoors more so I can get used to the harder surfaces and variable conditions. There'll be many more opportunities as the weeks go by.

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