Long Run

Jim and Lorin came out to visit us this weekend and thus far it has been ballin. Today we all packed in the cars and drove to the Boulder Rez for our long run. Wally and I had been assigned 2 hours for the first time ever, and both of us were pretty intimidated by this. Max and Jim had 105 and Bobbie had 95 min. We stared the run nice and chill and soon we were clipping right at a smooth 650ish pace. Jim and I talked a lot, but for the most part everyone else was pretty quite. Each loop around the Rez takes about 36 mins so after the first 2 loops you start to know if it is going to be a good and fresh long run for you, or one of those ones when you still have 40 min left and you are already sucking wind. Today I felt like the former. At the start of the 3rd lap Wally and I started to pull the trigger a little bit and brought down the pace to the 640 range. Both of us seemed very comfortable and clicked off some really nice miles. at 100 min we stopped at the drinking fountain for a quick drink and took off for out last 20 min. These last min seemed to just drag on forever. The miles before this all went so quick, but the last 3 miles just took forever. We both were still feeling pretty good and even ran our fastest split of the run (6:33) but the last 20 just seemed to last forever. Soon we hit the final hill until the parking lot and we costed in to finish the 2 hour run with  milage of 17.6 mi. But the really cool thing about today was Jim's run. He is has been in Boulder for one day and woke up this morning at did about 15 miles in 105 min. He has been training at sea level this entire time and I am throughly impressed. He also made it look easy, the kid is nuts.