Time of Day: 6:30 AM

Weather: 58*, 93% humidity, breezy, cloudy

Duration: 2 hours 57 minutes 53 seconds

Distance: 21 miles

Average Pace: 8:28/mile

Notes: Unfortunately I just realized that I’m running out of time and need to go to work soon.  I guess I’ll just complain less about my sucky long run.  It started out fine, but just like last week, quickly went south.  I can’t even blame it on the weather, although it did start raining around mile 19. 

I haven’t been sleeping enough and just felt plain fatigued.  No pain, just tired.  To look on the bright side, I think runs like this are good mental training.  If all my long runs were easy and happy and I felt like skipping, I would be prepared at all for that awful mile 24 in the marathon.

Still, I’ve had two bad long runs in a row and was a whole minute and 15 seconds slower than marathon pace today.  It makes me worry. 

No time to nap after my long run, which just about killed me because I’m also a bit sleep-deprived.  I’m leaving for my parents’ house tomorrow and need to have everything in order before I go to work tonight.  Tomorrow I will lift weights, drive to Austin, and go to the Nutcracker!  Then out for my sister’s birthday!  Then there’s Christmas Eve stuff, Christmas stuff, then….Michigan.  More about that later.

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