I wasn't sure I felt like.....

running 10 miles today, but I told my daughter that if she was going to train to run the Route 66 Marathon in November in Tulsa, that I would try to train along with her here in California, even though I may or may not actually run a marathon myself. Today's Gos long run was scheduled at 10 miles and Lisa did her yesterday so I was up. I took off from the house about 11:45 after a really good church service. The temperature was in the mid 80's, not too bad for summer in Bakersfield. As I began to stretch out my legs I immediately realized that I was not as sore as I usually am at the beginning of a run. It generally takes me a couple of miles to work out the various pains in my butt, legs and abdomen, but today those issues didn't exist. I still maintained my plan though of run 3 minutes, walk 1 minute for the first 4 miles until I got to the bike path. I ran the 1.5 miles of the bike path at a pretty good pace until I got to Gosford Rd where I resumed my 3 & 1's. I was also breaking in a new hydration pack on this run. About half way through the run I started sucking air when I went to take a drink, then when I let the hose dangle back down it was dripping on my shirt - very annoying! Before I got too annoyed, I realized that the drinking tip was threaded onto the end of the hose. As soon as I tightened it up, problem solved. So I did my 10 miles in 1 hr, 53 minutes. Not bad, but probably could have been faster in cooler weather. At the end of it, I really didn't feel as if I had just run 10 miles. Of course, a little later, after sitting at my computer for 30 minutes it was a bit difficult getting up and moving. But couldn't let that stop me, still had gardening to do.