Wow. Ugh. I ran 23 miles of the St. George course. I started at the start line, way up in Central, and was only going to run 20 miles. But, because of the logistics of the other runners, and where they were at on the course, I ended up doing the first 23 miles, down to the church at the entrance to St. George.
I really only ran uptempo (a relative term) for the first 20 miles, and then slowly jogged in the last 3, because my mindset was only on the first 20. I ran the 20 in about 7:40 pace. I felt ok, my body responded ok, i am sore, and my achilles is sore, but it did better than i thought. I now wonder if I can maybe pull off a sub 3 hour on race day, but, not sure about that. I won't have enough long runs in the bank to probably do that, but i am going to give it a shot. | 