Milestone - 200 miles

As I uploaded the data from today's long run, I noticed that it has bumped my milage for the year up to the magical 200 - such a beautiful round number!  It also puts me within 0.31 miles of the break even point required to run 1000 training miles in 2010.  Just the boost I need after a tough few weeks - at least something's going right.

This was the first long run I have done overdistance for the half marathon (15.35 miles).  I ran it slower than my normal long run pace, but bear in mind that my normal long run pace is too fast and I only ran it an average 5 seconds/mile slower.  I definitely need to work on reigning myself in!  But I was really chuffed to see that when I fed my distance and time into a Rigel calculator, it predicted me a half marathon time of 1:59:09.  I'll take that!  Now that I've proved to myself that sub 2 is doable, I can focus on some quality recovery and consolidation to prepare me for Sheffield.

I think I'll start with a nice big bowl of curry and rice and a stretch out on the foam roller...