Remarks: It’s been a while since I ran 14 miles, I had spent a while last night trying to find a route in my training runs last year and the year before and I didn’t find any. I decided to run into town and back out, deciding on the way if I needed to take any additional loops.

The run was great, the usual niggles at different times during the run, and at 11.90 miles I thought my hamstring (pain behind my left knee) was in trouble, but other than slowing down for a short while I’m in great shape.

After the run I went for a 1/2 mile run with Aidan – he is nearly 5 and had been asking for a while. we averaged 14 min miles and he did really well. he didn’t stop until we got to the half way point!

Conditions: Good day, I got up with Fionn and Aidan at 7:30 so I also had breakfast and a pint of water – I felt I needed fuel before 14 miles. I was a bit nervous of the distance.

Recovery: Good! In addition to the 1/2 mile run with Aidan, I did 3 miles of a very very easy cycle with the kids and I wore compression socks.

I did a good bit of stretching after the 14 miles, and I drank a protein shake – Sinead had a great dinner for us and over all I think the day was good.

I got hit with tiredness a few times during the day and I’m very tired writing this now.

Average Heart Rate: 125 bpm
Max Heart Rate: 187 bpm
Avg Run Cadence: 180 spm
Max Run Cadence: 206 spm
Avg Vertical Oscillation: 9.6 cm
Avg Ground Contact Time: 236 ms
Avg Stride Length: 1.05 m
Time: 1:59:31
Avg Pace: 8:32 min/mi
Best Pace: 5:19 min/mi

Splits
Mile 1: 8:29
Mile 2: 8:42
Mile 3: 8:35
Mile 4: 8:28
Mile 5: 8:34
Mile 6: 10:05 – Slowest (not sure why the pace is so slow, but I did drop into the Mardyke to us the toilet)
Mile 7: 8:31
Mile 8: 8:24
Mile 9: 8:23
Mile 10: 8:35
Mile 11: 8:48
Mile 12: 8:33
Mile 13: 8:35
Mile 14: 8:07 – Fastest