Time: 8:30am
Distance: 20 miles
Route: Penasquitos Canyon - Lopez Canyon and Waterfall Detours
Completed In: 3:05:49
Shoes: Asics GT 2130 - narrow width
Fuel: Sharkies
Mood: Good - the buoyant, then happy, then ecstatic, then buoyant, then tired. Then done!
Weather:Overcast - 73 degrees. Then rainy for a spella round 7.5 miles. By time I finished - over 80 degrees.
Delicious.
It was early -- the desert aromatic in scents of grass, sage, ozone and fresh rain. When it sprinkles in the desert, the fine dirt clumps under your shoes and sticks there, making it feel as though you are running after receiving local anesthesia in your feet.
Novocaine for the Sole, man.
It rained on me for about half a mile, which was refreshing and fun. My energy was good, my tunes were better, and it was easy to receive huge surges of dopamine along the trail. I played a bit - deviating off the main path to explore Lopez canyon (too hilly too early on, so I headed back) and find this mysterious waterfall, which right now is just a pool of water under some rock.
It wasn't until mile 17 or so that I began to get tired. My left hamstring started talking at the end in an unsettling way, but has not bothered me since. Yoga and thai massage have helped loosen everything up.
Now we begin the maddening tapering phase.
I'm tempted to follow coach's schedule to the nose just to see what it would be like. I have 2 weeks of 20 mile long runs, then the race. I have never run less than a 24 mile long run before a race. I don't doubt I will finish -- but part of me wants to do it the old way because it seems I will be less likely to feel pain upon finish if it is only 2 miles longer than my longest training run, instead of 6.
We'll see how I feel Sunday.
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