Jerry Runs a Big One

Time: 84:08
Distance: 14.04 miles
Pace: 5:59
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I got up this morning and saw that Jerry's Kids was running the Quad Cities Marathon. I haven't chatted with Jerry in a few weeks but guessed that he would be shooting for mid-2:20s. I left to do my long run with the Queens athletes out at McAlpine and wasn't able to hit refresh every 10 minutes.

My run was fantastic. The legs were really fresh due to the light workload midweek and the weather started cool and dry. I was running with Futsum, Oscar, Benny and Simon for the first 4 or 5 miles and then the Ethiopian went to work. He was going 17 miles but I guess he was feeling frisky early on because by 6 miles we were running around 6:00 pace. Futsum kept at the pace until mile 9 when he decided to back off because now Oscar and I had gone to work. Benny lasted until mile 10 and it was down to two for the last 25 minutes. I felt good the whole way and a good hard long run is something that I think I've been missing in my training. This is not the type of effort I need every weekend, but it reminded how good it feels to finish up the last 6 or 8 miles of a long run at a good clip.

Splits: 7:19, 6:41, 6:34, 6:26, 6:07, 5:57, 5:49, 5:39, 5:33, 5:36, 5:43, 5:35, 5:31, 5:29.

After the run I went to pick up Meagan who made me guess as to what Jerry's Kids ran. I said 2:25 and she seemed a little disappointed at my guessing ability. He crossed the tape in 5th place with a time of 2:25:13. Great stuff. Congrats.