Runner's Edge Group run in Lawerence Kansas, ran in the gray Hoka's.
The weather was amazing and almost a little warm side the last 5 miles. The first 12 miles we zigged and zagged through town with the largest hills always being on the KU campus. Instead of doing an out and back course we decided after running the first 5 miles of the route that we would back track and run those again to make the total run 22 miles. This was a great idea because we eliminated all of the major hills and only had to deal with nice rolling to flat terrain. A couple of people had some bathroom issues so we started our Goal Pace miles earlier than expected but it got them back to the bathrooms in time. Our average total mile pace for this run was 7:10/mi. That is crazy fast for the longest run of the training cycle and nobody was willing to slow down. I made some comments about the pace throughout the run. Miles on this run went like this:
8:05, 7:25, 7:11, 7:19, 7:10, 7:11, 7:07, 7:25, 6:50, 6:53, 6:35, 7:05, 6:53, 6:34, 6:25, 6:42, 7:11, 7:29, 7:31, 7:27, 7:26, 7:42
My body was definitely sore after this run, mostly just my hip flexors.
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