potato power?!?
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i don’t normally blog about what i eat but today for lunch i had a can of Campbell’s Chunky Baked Potato with Cheddar & Bacon Bits. those commercials were right…it filled me up.
by mid-afternoon (about 90 minutes later) i headed out the door and headed down comanche to the glacial drumlin trail. i turned east toward town and was able to dodge doggie leftovers much more gracefully with the benefit of the sun. i then followed college avenue through town, past carroll college then headed north then west to pick up the new berlin recreation trail.
a year or two ago the trail was paved. part of me was disappointed they did that because it was one of the few dirt trails around, which was much more forgiving than pavement. regardless, i was thankful it was paved today otherwise it would have been awful sloppy. i kept heading east and turned around once my GPS watch read 8.5 miles. heading back, i had the benefit of a slight tailwind and sunny skies which made the mid-thirties much more comfortable. i backtracked down college and picked up the glacial drumlin. i improvised an extra mile out and back on the drumlin trail rather than turning back up into my subdivision. doing so would put me at 18 miles as i passed my house.
as i crested the big hill on comanche, i kept running past my house and again improvised 2 more miles. i rolled home with 20 miles completed in a few ticks short of 2:39, which translates to just a little faster than 8 minute per mile pace. the fun part was that no "bonk" was encountered. usually, my blood sugar starts to dip after about 2 hours of running. today i ran fine through nearly 160 minutes and could likely have kept going if i wasn’t planning to run more tomorrow.
overall, todays run was a very solid effort. now the big question is how will my legs respond when i set out tomorrow afternoon for another constitutional.