As I lamented in yesterday's post, I'm not all that pleased with the pace of my training runs. So what do I do today? That's right, a long run! So much for adding more speed to my workouts.

My run was great though. Probably one of the best runs I've had recently. And at 7.15 miles it was my longest run yet. I'm not really sure the reason though. It could've been the weather. It's August here in the Northeast but when I started out at around 8:30pm, it was a cool 69 degrees with low humidity. Absolutely perfect running weather. Or it could've been all the beer I drank yesterday!

Regardless, tonight was one of those nights where I felt I could've kept going another couple miles. Everything felt really comfortable and I managed the whole thing in a 9:17/mile pace. Not exactly setting the world on fire, but not too slow either. If I can keep that pace up for the Nike+ Human Race, I'll be pretty happy.

Tomorrow it's back to a 4 or 5 miler with some race pace repeats to gear up for Saturday.