Long Run: 6.5 in 1:11 = 10:54 ave. pace
6:30pm
Winds ave 5mph SSE, gusts up to 12mph
Temp around 80*
Overall: felt good!

Its been a couple of hours since our run. Today is Halloween, and since our long run was messed up this past Friday, we did a shorter run that day and made up the long run this evening. Boy was in a great mood after eating his giant bag of sour worms and was ready to GO GO GO!

I had to grab last minute "fuel" and chose some homemade hummus and crackers and took some of this new drink VIDRATION with me. So, just a few highlights:

Boy was on fire. He was soooo far ahead of me and never slowed down until we got into the heavy trick or treaters. A couple kids started chasing him and talking to him, so he ended up walking through there waiting for me to catch up. This is where we go on the dirt road around the pond. He again, left me in the dust (I'm thinking I need to eat some freakin sour worms from now on!!) at the end of that road, he wanted to vent about the kids and find out where to go from there (this was around 3.5 mi). I have him the route and off he went again...for about a quarter of a mile ??? I am thinking OHHHH NOOOO he can't get the grove back. But he said to keep going so we did - this was our slowest mile - are 12:15 I think. He kept running ahead and walking until I caught up because it was dark by now and we have gators, etc so he didnt want to get that far ahead (thoughtful, huh?!). Around mile 5.5 he started saying that RBS was hitting him and his stomach was crampy, making him feel like he had to throw up - he had taken his hat off because his head was hot, but he hung in for another mile and we finished at 6.5 (today was scheduled 6 mi but I was hoping for 7 to get a leg up on next weekend's 15k).

As for me, I was pretty steady between 10:30 - 11:00 for all 6.5 mi (except 4). While we were walking on that mile, I told Boy that I felt tightness in my right chest shoulder...but it went away when I 'slowed it down' (even though, cardio trainer says I didnt ever slow down after that - go figure). The pre-run food agreed with me, my pace and energy felt great. I wore the blue mizunos and they aren't going to fly for runs much longer than this I dont think, but this was fine. I felt like I had a pretty solid run going and I'm not worried about next weekend - I'll be slow - but I am just going to get the Tshirt and 'get back into it' - not looking to melt the pavement ;)