A long run that got tough
My wife and I did our long runs together again today. She did 16km and I carried on to do 25km. The first loop was great as conditions were perfect and everything was great.
I took this panoramic shot with my camera while my wife stopped for a pitstop.
As you can see we were running in a rather scenic area. 
I dropped my wife off at the 15km mark and carried on to do another loop around the local area. For some reason I found the last 5km or so rather tough and had to walk quite a bit. My legs just felt dead and afterwards my joints were rather sore. I suspect it had to do with my new shoes (separate post to follow) and I also stuck quite a few more hills in my route.
That’s week 08 of my marathon training complete. 10 more weeks to the marathon itself! Next week is a step back week so my long run will only be 18 km.
60.2 km for the week. Which is not too bad.
I think it’s totally awesome that you go on long runs with your wife. You are two very lucky people.
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Very cool that you can share that time together. When you’re running near the water, are you on the sand or on pavement?
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Andrew
reply on August 24th, 2009 6:12 am:
Pavement. I’ve tried sand before and it’s not for me!
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Week 8 of 18 and you’re already running 60K/week. That’s a lot of running. I had to do the conversions to mileage in my head, but it still seems like a lot to me. Looks like week 11 is your highest week ~75K. Yowsers! I don’t think I could handle that many miles in a week. Keep up the good work.
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I love the panoramic shot !!! It is absolutely gorgeous. How cool is that to be running next to your soulmate ?
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Looks I shared a good part of your waterfront section on Sunday. It is lovely along the coast. Bit of a headwind at times but you put that down to ambience.
Looking at your photo I think I was out a little earlier
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I did a long run with my sister once. We started off very slowly, and I left her after partway through to do 10 or so k by myself. I was stuffed, even though we’d been going super slow, and it took me more than 10k to warm up! Going slowly with others definitely helps, but it doesn’t always feel great when you try to pick up the pace afetrwards!
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Sounds like that step back week has arrived at a good time for your legs sake.
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[...] A long run that got tough [...]
I’m with “mac” – seems like you’re running a lot with 10 (now 9…) to go. Far more than me (circa 50km)! Good on you and no doubt you’ll be streets ahead of me due to all of your hard work!
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