Well, I've hit another milestone today. I was able to run 5.5 miles for my long run today, without stopping, and without any trouble. I initially was just going to do a short 3 mile jog, in lieu of doing some cross training. At 30 minutes in, I felt so good that I decided to make this my long run day, so I just continued my pace for another 30 minutes. I believe I was a little dehydrated today as I barely broke a sweat. What's more important, I felt as if I could have kept going, but decided to not push it. Slow and steady wins the race. I was running a 11 minute mile pace, much slower than my previous two runs of 9:30. So, I've proved that if I slow it down a little that I'll have no trouble continuing to increase my long run distance each week. The Lincoln Half Marathon is now 11 weeks away. Still a lot of time, but it will sneek up fast.
Otherwise, we got several inches of snow yesterday, from 6 to 8 in the Omaha metro area. It was a quick moving system and blew in and right back out in a few hours. It was a little depressing since we'd melted of our snow previously, and I had been out running on the local city trails. But, hopefully it won't last long now that we're already moving into the latter half of February.
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