Longest long run before the marathon...

From here on in, the work gets easier up until marathon day. I did my longest run of the training today. Coach Brian said to go out and do 3 hours and 30 minutes at long run pace -- which should be roughly 24 miles if I'm hitting 8:20/mile consistently and taking short breaks.

So that is what I did. I was up and on the roads at around 7:30 am and was finished at around 11 am. I banged off 24.37 miles (39.2 kilometres) and my average pace was 8:14 per mile. Here are my splits:

8:16
8:09
8:09
8:11
8:16
8:13
8:09
8:14
8:15
8:16
8:15
8:12
8:14
8:16
8:15
8:18
8:13
8:19
8:12
8:14
8:14
8:09
8:15
8:14
8:05 (0.37 miles)

So I was pretty consistent for the entire run. There were no situations where I thought I wouldn't be able to complete the run, and there were no situations where I had to walk beyond the standard 2.5 mile scheduled 1 minute rest breaks.

The legs are sore this afternoon -- but I'm walking semi-normally.

I'm chalking this up as a good run!