Saturday Long Run (SLR)

We weren't all able to go on a long run together this week.  Sad day for us!  We all did have a great run though!  My run was awesome. I was even contemplating not going on it this week.  We really don't have to start training for the marathon until June 3rd so I thought, this long run won't really matter, why do it?!  Plus, Bryant (husband, which is also training for this marathon with us) and I had to unload a truck of bee hives before going on our long run.  Before I knew it we were dropping off one vehicle near the bottom of Johnson Canyon and driving up 10 miles to start our run.  Some of our bees stay the summer in Johnson canyon so it was perfect to run after doing our work.  We changed out of work clothes into running clothes right there on the side of the road.  Good thing there isn't much traffic up that way!  The run felt amazing!  We started at like 8 AM, little chilly, but not bad.  I kept looking down at my watch wondering how I was running as fast as I was.  I was keeping an 8:37 min pace!  What in the world!??!!!  I did walk a total of three times and I did take a couple of minutes each time I walked, and didn't turn my watch off.  So in the end my pace was 9 on the dot!  Lately I have been the 9:20- 9:30 min pace lady, so this was kind of fun for me!  Pretty day out there!  Johnson Canyon will always be one of my favorite places to do a long run, unless the wind is blowing against me!  That's happened a time or two.  It is an easy course, mostly flat with a couple of small hills.