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20 miles and liquids gone wrong

My marathon training plan had the 1st of it’s two 20 milers this past week and I’m pleased to report that I completed it without collapsing.  As a matter of fact I felt pretty good muscular wise, but I did have a few issues during the run.

The first problem was that I was not particularly well rested.  Daylight saving kicked in this weekend so when my alarm went off at the new 5AM it was actually the old 4AM.  And to compound this my daughter had a rather restless night and called for me many a time so it was a rather bleary eyed dad that went for his run.

The second issue is that I had a few internal rumblings and had to visit quite a few of the bathrooms along my route.  I suspect it is caused by the energy type drink I used this week.  I’ve found that these drinks don’t work well for me and for my next long run I’ll stick to a gel or two as they don’t seem to cause me any grief.

Other than that the run was great.  My wife did the first 12.5 km with me and that is always nice.

We saw this family at Mission Bay enjoying an early morning out:

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I followed a route that took in most of the second half of the marathon course.  During the actual marathon we’ll be running across the harbour bridge:

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It is always nice running through the Viaduct area as you get to see all the expensive toys of the rich and famous.  I was hoping to grab a picture of a super yacht as there are normally one or two but there were none in the harbour:

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I saw these suspicious looking characters as well:

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Speaking of suspicious looking characters, I saw a guy get arrested by the police which was a bit of fun.  I think he’d been trying to break into a house as the police were wrestling him to the ground and putting handcuffs on.  That was a bit unusual to say the least!

I felt pretty good after the run.  I thought I would be wiped out but it wasn’t too bad. 

I did 32 km in 3:19:12 which was just what my training plan called for.  A nice gentle 32km run.

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This coming week is now a rest week so the mileage is dramatically reduced.  Next week I’ll have another 20 miler and then we’re into the taper!  Not long now. :)

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