Rainy day run -- Sat. Nov. 14

Mild but wet, alternately light showers and heavy drenching ones. I got a bit of both: started at about midday, in shorts & long sleeved shirt (from this year's Monson) and marathon jacket, plus hat and gloves. A bit stiff, but ready for some hills and about 10 miles? Headed down geoHannum to the old high school x-country trail , and started up that hill (met a walker and two dogs, also soaked but cheerful) and along that mile or so of trail to come out on 202, then right and all the way to Summit: left and start up the hill, and continue by turning right into Oak Ridge, all the way to Mountain View. Hard climb, and then the long and occasionally hard descent (got sub-6 just briefly, though not pushing), to cross 202 and into Eskett. By then over 7 miles, and feeling a bit low on energy, so decide to go directly home rather than add Rural. Keep pushing up Boardman, and reach 9 miles, then with all uphill to go decide to stop a bit short of home and then cool off. Stop just after the sledding hill enfin:

Time: 1:09:37
Distance: 9.54 miles
Pace: 7:18s

Then jog the remaining bit home, 0.62 miles @ 9:34 pace.

Comment: this was a tough hilly course, with trail and mud and rain, so I'm pretty happy with the pace. At the one hour mark I saw it was under 7:30s, but that was pretty much where I was hitting the limit of comfort. Not really up to 10+ milers except at an easy pace right now, and I didn't want to put too much effort in as there's tomorrow's SRRC run to consider. For the record, this run makes it the first week in many that I've reached 30 miles (since the marathon?).