Met with Jon and James and drove up to the start of the Top of Utah marathon and ran on the course to Jon's house at mile 21.7 (according to Mr. Garmin). We tried to stay around 7:00 pace and did so coming in with a 6:51 ave pace. Some of that is due to the 6:27 mile and a 5:44 pace .6 to finish it off.
My blister/chunk missing in my skin caused some major problems by mile 10 as the moleskin lost its stickness and my sock was chafing. Eventually, Jon came up with an idea of suing his toilet paper AND the baggie he carries it in to cushin the foot. That worked like a charm as the friction was plastic on plastic not foot on sock/shoe. That got me through the run.
Overall, a good training run, one of my stronger 20 milers ever.
Total Time: 2:29:05 (6:51)
Ave HR: 153
Afterward played Ultimate frisbee with Jon and company. I wore the Garmin to see how much running actually occurrs during a game. We played for 1.5 hours and covered about 5.5 miles. Which comes out to about 16 min miles. No speed records there. I figure all the sprinting is worth 2.3 miles to round out my mileage to 25 miles today. Ave HR: for the time playing frisbee was 149. Not that bad of a cardio workout. | 