I ran 20 miles this morning to finish off my first 80 mile week this year, while running my first 20 mile run of the year. It felt good to be out for that long, and it also felt good to finally be running weekly mileage that is adequate for marathon training. I slept in this morning, so I had to keep the pace brisk almost right from the start. By the time I was about 4 miles into the run I was running pretty close to 6:00 pace. I made it to 5.25 miles in 34:57, and 8.25 in 53:00. 1:18:00 into the run I started running 3:00 off 5:00 on, repeating this 5 times before running the last bit back home. I am not sure what pace I was running (during the fast or slow sections), but all combined I think that I was still averaging low 6:00 pace (no worse than 6:15 and sometimes faster). I ended up running the last 4.25 miles in 26:34. The total time for the run was 2:05:16. In the evening I performed lunges and jumps up stairs again with Shayon on my shoulders. I felt better doing the strength exercises than I thought I would.
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