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Tenderloin
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I’ve been building long runs quite steadily since summer but also doing some more focused speed workouts and contrasting those with the slow runs being much slower than just staying in the default zone 3 constantly and not recovering enough to push harder on fast days.
Anyway, headed out early this morning in the rain with no headphones, some dates in my pockets and a bottle of water with the intent of doing 20 miles and then seeing how things were going. Also told myself that if it got not-fun, going home after 12km would be acceptable.
Ended up actually being very comfy and felt really good at 21km with the pace being fairly consistent up and down the hills on the loop.
Ended up knocking 10 mins of my PB and am definitely feeling more hopeful about getting below 3 hours at some point next year. Preferably in the dry.