Afternoon Long Run with Fast Finish

Today I did my long run again in the afternoon. My brother as I said, is out of town, so I decided to run in the afternoon. I started the run at 4 p.m. in the Turia park since the forecast said that it was going to rain, but so far it has been cloudy, but not even a drop of rain.

Then plan was to do the same as 2 weeks ago, easy effort and in the last 5 kms marathon effort, or in my case as I never have run a marathon, faster than easy pace and slower than tempo pace. Went to the "Churchill" and back in 15:51, fastest time in a while in that segment, felt good and then went to the other extreme of the Turia park and back.

Splits were: 15:51 (2.4k or so to the churchill), then splits per km: 6:43 (22:34, this is the long km that has 50m extra, so around 6:23), 6:20 (28:54), 6:15 (35:09), 6:16 (41:25), 6:08 (47:33), 6:11 (53:44), 6:12 (59:56), I now started the 5k progression at "marathon effort", 5:14 (1:05:10), 5:15 (1:10:25), 5:08 (1:15:33), 5:04 (1:20:37), 5:20 (This is like the first km, around 50m long, so more around 5:05 or so), finished the 5k when the watch read 1:25:57, then ran easy for the remaining 4:03 to complete the 90 mins, finished in the fountain to drink some water.

Felt a bit tired at the end, but the pace felt very managable, did the last 5ks with the extra 50m in 26:01, so 5k were around 25:45 or so, so around 25 seconds faster than 2 weeks ago for the last 5k, but I got to the 14.4k today in 85:57, 2 weeks ago I got in 88:44, so almost 3 mins faster. Anyway, I wont do a competition in every long run, since the most important thing here is the duration of the run and the last 5k at a faster pace, the remaining of the run is easy, and easy pace varies depending on how tired you are. I felt good in the faster portion, felt like I almost was not breathing, but the legs were somewhat tired, which is good because these kind of runs teach you to run fast when tired. Good day of running and good weather for running.

The Turia park was very lonely, it was me and some fellow runners running there. You have to do what you have to do! Around 15.1k total for the day and 61+ kms for the week which is good! Another weeks running 6 times, I cant thing of another year that I have run so consistently.