Long run

Stayed up kind of late Friday night attending a Chicago concert at Starlight Theater, then forgot to change my alarm from 5:30 to 5 a.m., so I was a little late getting out the door this morning. It wouldn't be a big deal, but it warms up pretty fast after about 7:30, and I wanted to be done by then.

Even with the late start it wasn't all that bad, though. The temperature was 70 at 6 a.m. I started slow, and kept it that way. The route I took was 90 percent shaded, so even for the last half hour (ending at 7:50 I spent little time in the direct sunlight.

The schedule had 11 miles on it, and I finished with 11.5 in 1:48:01, which is a 9:24 pace. The last three and a half miles were at marathon pace, slightly under 9 min. per mile.

The the week, then, I had 32.1 miles.