Lisa left her car at the Route 128 Amtrak station in Westwood before travelling to NYC on Friday. Rather than tie up two people for 2 hours retrieving it along with another hour to drop me off in Hopkinton for a long run on course, I instead ran to Westwood to get it.
It was 14.5 miles to Westwood and then I added an extra 3.5mi back and forth on access road near train station to get to 18 miles in under 3 hours. My GPS watch has a nice feature I hadn’t tried previously where a planned route can be downloaded into it. It shows simple course line on one of its screens and buzzes if you go off course (handy a couple of times). I ran this 14 minutes faster than my first slushy 18 miler on Comm Ave hills a month ago.
Last two miles hurt a lot…slowed down by 1min/mile at constant heart rate…and still have 8.2mi more to go after that…
My training history from September til now and plan til 4/15:
