Another personal best!

10.5 miles in 1:38:33. That’s a 9:23 pace for my longest-ever-yet run.

I start­ed out with my reg­u­lar 4.4 miles out to the start of Chris­sy Field and back, and added a jaunt to the end of the munic­i­pal pier. Then I was feel­ing pret­ty good so I decid­ed to see how far down the Embar­cadero I could go to add a lit­tle more dis­tance. Bing the big dumb per­fec­tion­ist I am, I went all the way out to Third and King at SBC Park. And back. 4.4 + 0.5 + 5.6 == a very mod­u­lar 10.5 miles.

Feels great! I was push­ing my heartrate the whole way. Start­ing not to care about that. If I can do 10+ miles at 180bpm it can’t be that bad for me. I usu­al­ly don’t run until my legs hurt, but I sure did this time. It’s all mus­cle pain though.

The kick­er is that I went to my gym to take a show­er and found that the show­ers are under con­struc­tion for the next three to four weeks. So Now I’m stinky in my office and look­ing for a place to wash up.

Also pissed off because I only get 70 min­utes of play on my iPod while run­ning before the bat­tery dies. I get more than that if I’m not run­ning, but damn.

Plus I think my iPod erased itself when I plugged it in at work today. Now THAT sucks.

4 Replies to “Another personal best!”

  1. When I’m run­ning, I can run
    When I’m run­ning, I can run non-stop for almost 5 1/2 hours with­out los­ing my iPod bat­tery. If I’m not run­ning, just sit­ting or walk­ing around, it lasts almost 9 hours. 

    You should have yours checked.

  2. You can run non-stop for 5
    You can run non-stop for 5 1/2 hours? I’m sur­prised. I fig­ured since you run so fast that you must not have as much endurance. Clear­ly I was wrong.

  3. Yeah, I’m one of those
    Yeah, I’m one of those “human mar­vels” you hear so much about. Most peo­ple are built either for speed or endurance. I’m built for both. I don’t brag about it, even though I’m a tru­ly amaz­ing man.

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