26.24 km = 16.3 mile long run at 5:19 average pace

We got in our long run today and the weather co-operated! It was -7 C. when I was leaving the house and -6 C by the time I got downtown London. On my way home in the afternoon, it was -1 C. I wore my Maple Leafs headband, Boston white gloves covered with snowmobile gloves, my Under Armour muscle shirt with a long sleeve running shirt and my black Boston running jacket, my Boston long tights, regular Champion socks and my Brooks shoes. I nailed the layers -- I wasn't too cold or too warm the entire run. There was very little wind.

I took some beef jerky for the salt and a bunch of dried apricots for the energy. Both baggies were pretty much gone by the time I got back to Goodlife.

I showed up for the Boston Breakfast Club 4 miles before the 12 miles that the rest of the group was doing. But my GPS didn't click in until about a kilometre into the run. That first K was pretty easy pace, though.

I met up with Dave Prentice across the King Street bridge and we ran the entire distance down through the park, up to Boler at Baseline and back again.

My legs were feeling the stress on the way back -- particularly the last couple of miles. But I battled on and got through it.

Here are my splits:

{No time for 1st kilometre}
5:23
5:11
5:25
5:36
5:28
5:41
5:43
5:31
5:16
5:14
5:11
5:07
5:06
5:09
5:34
5:06
5:08
5:11
5:06
5:11
5:08
5:10
5:03
5:44 Up snow covered street after tunnel -- couldn't get traction!
5:30
3:33 (for 0.24 K -- doesn't appear accurate)

Certainly running with Dave was a good match. His personal bests that I could find online (3:19 marathon) were a bit faster than mine (3:25) and his 2013 Around the Bay time of 2:20:14 blows away my 2:30 personal best. So if I can link up with him in future runs, we're a good pace match -- which makes a huge difference on a long run.

All in all, it was a good run today.