Long Run Day!

Sunday, January 08, 2012 · Mike Davis

Saturday January 7, 2012

Long run day!

The end of the week means long run and so after finishing work, I hooked up with a fairly new running friend and we headed out for a 10 mile challenge. Because of the lousy week of running I had, I kind of felt like this was an important run. Okay, that was a bit overly dramatic thinking, but mentally I needed a positive experience. The weather was nice and the company enthusiastic, so the miles passed quickly and everything was feeling pretty good. We swapped stories and around mile 8 my partner was struggling and worried about his Achilles, I encouraged him (selfishly) to keep moving. Knowing we only had 2 miles left I couldn’t allow us to give in to a silly Achilles, my partner probably thought never again. With a mile to go my partner was really struggling as he had never gone this distance, so I went into the coaching mode. I came up with another story to keep his mind off of the remaining distance and it worked up till I told him we had to run past what he thought was the finish and run another half mile. Suddenly my partner got delirious and told me he would run another 3 miles if I wanted! We finished when my watch beeped 10.

For me I had a bit of a foot issue, but beyond that, I felt great. My back seems to be recovered and everything else was okay. Long run done and ready to take my rest day for the week. My mileage was down for the week, but that’s okay. Next week I want to move to 40 miles.

Good night!

mike