When 10 miles feels long

Isn't it funny how 10 miles feels short at the end of a training cycle, but can seem so long just a few weeks later? Here we are two weeks post-race and I wanted to put in a long-ish run over the weekend. When going from a spring to fall marathon, there's not a whole lot of time between training cycles since the races are 4-5 months apart as opposed to 6-7 months from a fall to spring marathon. Since training will start again in no time, I knew I couldn't slack off on the distance for much longer.

I decided I'd like to run about 10 miles, but it just seemed soooo far. I wasn't feeling too enthusiastic about it on Saturday morning... luckily hubs was coming with me and I knew I just had to suck it up and I'd probably definitely feel better if I did it.

Anyway, we headed out Saturday morning for this looooong run. We went to our favourite spot and I was immediately more enthused about the run once we got started on those familiar trails.

We followed the path north where the pavement ends and took to the real trails for the majority of our run. It was so quiet and peaceful and before I knew it, we were almost done. Hubs went on to run a few extra so I took the opportunity for a self-photo shoot.

It still felt a lot longer than the distance would have a couple weeks ago, but it was nice to get some decent miles on my legs again. I'm definitely ready to get back into the swing of things and start feeling like a marathoner again.