Christmas Long Run

On Christmas Eve Day and Night, before I ate this:

Christmas Eve Lasagna Lunch at the in-laws

 And this

Shrimp Cocktail

Spinach Dip

Stuffed Mushrooms

And this…

Meat Filled Calzones

I ran just short of 13 miles with three of my high school friends.  As I mentioned last week, Stephanie is training for Boston and the rest of us just wanted to do a long run before we ate and drank all weekend.  We met at 8am in the burbs and ran down the marathon route for awhile and then through lots of hills.  Pace didn’t matter to any of us, all that mattered was running with our friends.  This is one of Stephanie's furthest runs (she has done a few half marathons though) and I couldn’t be more proud. I'm also psyched that this didnt feel too hard for me.  Maybe I haven't lost that much since the marathon.

2:05, 12.75 miles, 9:49 pace
Mile 1: 8:57
Mile 2: 9:33
Mile 3: 9:38
Mile 4: 10:09
Mile 5: 9:57
Mile 6: 9:55
Mile 7: 9:39
Mile 8: 9:40
Mile 9: 10:01
Mile 10: 9:57
Mile 11: 9:57
Mile 12: 10:07
.75: 10:06

The best part of this run was that I convinced Nancy to sign up for the Hyannis Half.  I really think she is  my ticket to breaking 1:50.  Nance ran 3:55 in October and came through the half in 1:55.  My goal for this training period is to really hit all my speed and tempo runs.  I'm most likely going to do a lot of my long runs with Stephanie and won't worry too much about pace on those runs. But if I do tempo runs with faster than race pace, I think I'll be on target to run my fastest half.

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!  I had a blast with my husbands family eating and drinking way too much.  And now a perfect detox... getting stuck in my house for the 14 inches of snow we are supposed to get (not).

Merry Chrismakkah!

Stay tuned for a recap of my trip to Portland, Maine with a special restaurant at Duck Fat!