Excellent (cool) 24 mile long run... (5:22/k = 8:35/mile)

What a difference a week makes! Today it was cool -- starting at around 7 degrees C. and going up to maybe 13 or so, but with a slight breeze. I was sweating profusely from my head and torso, but my shorts actually stayed dry. I wore my RaceReady shorts and my black singlet. Lots of folks thought I was crazy -- but by the end of the run, not so much.

We didn't push the pace. The average over the 24 miles (38.4 km) was 5:22 per K. But it felt easy the whole way and I could have easily done another couple of miles. Here are my splits:
5:51
5:45
5:28
5:39
5:23
5:24
5:23
5:09
5:16
5:16
5:09
5:03
5:13
5:28
5:35
5:24
4:58
5:21
5:22
5:18
5:36
5:11
5:21
5:23
5:20
5:32
5:42
5:42
5:19
5:18
5:12
5:20
5:22
5:16
5:15
5:17
5:10
5:11
4:55 (for 400 m.)

I carried 3 bags of 10 dried apricots, 1 Mars bar, 3 ibuprofen and 5 eTabs. I had the Mars bar and most of the apricots. I had 1 ibuprofen after 3K because my hip/butt was talking to me still -- a bit of pain left over from the Half a week ago, but much better than Thursdays' run. It was fine after the single ibuprofen. I didn't have any cola at the water stops.

I bounded through the last few kilometres. Felt great to be cool the whole way. Very happy with this run!