Since I started building my long runs I was trying to do them at 5 min/km pace and trying to hold that as I gradually increased the distance. I managed to get it up to 20 kms but when I jumped up to 24 it was simply not happening. After several attempts at that distance I gave it up as too lofty a challenge, and moved up to 30 kms. I have done that distance several times now with my best pace being about 5:17/km. So yesterday I knew that I was heading out too fast but it was such a great day and I truly felt fresh after having a relatively easy week. I truly expected to start regretting it by 10 kms and yet I still felt great and so I made a conscious decision to try to maintain the 5 min pace through 20 kms and then call it a day if it all fell apart after that. At about 17 kms I crested a bit of a slope and still felt unbelievably good, and still under the pace. The next 7 kms were all at or about 4:45 pace, and although it started hurtin a bit by then I suddenly believed I could make it the whole way. Sure enough I hung in there to finish in 2:27 and change, or 4:56/km. Woo hoo!!
I'm now gonna be at peace with that and if I never do it again so be it. It was one of those days when the stars just all aligned. As my Brazilian friend always says, "O universo conspire em meu favor".
(swim 1200 metres, computrainer 45 mins)
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."---Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark."---Swami Vivekananda
"Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it."---Wayne Dyer
....and I really like this one...
"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods."---H. L. Mencken
Love
Peter
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