Yesterday I headed out for my long run, 7 miles. The longest distance I have ever run actually. I was pretty nervous as the weather was not great, and I have a pretty sizable blister (which I got from wearing new, cheap shoes on my last long run, stupid stupid stupid argh!). It ended up so much better than I had imagined though. The rain was nice and light until the end, more of a refreshing drizzle really. And there's so much wildlife on the Samammish river trail, it's very inspiring. I saw two horses, a bald eagle, huge flocks of geese overhead in their vee formation, and more ducks and pretty birds than I could count.
There also must have been an event on the trail recently, there were all sorts of inspring messages chalked on the pavement like this one:
This run I also tried Gu gels for the first time, and wow, they really make a difference! I ate the first one at 3.5 miles, half way through, and then one every 15 minutes or so after that. I ended up running almost the entire 7 miles!! It was a slow pace of course, but I am totally fine with that. If I feel that great on race day I will be overjoyed!