Iron? Who Needs It?

I DO!

Today's 20 miles was the first long run I've ever finished feeling GOOD! I still can't get over it! I've been on the iron supplement (Slow Fe) for about 2 weeks now. I thought it would take much longer to see any effect, but I guess most people who take iron supplements aren't training for marathons.

Because of my past history of really konking out at the end of long runs, I have been dreading today's 20 all week. It's been like a dark cloud over my head. I had my husband drive me 20 miles away to the bike trail so that I would be sure to be as far away from our house as possible. I did an out and back route along the Little Miami River. A friend who is training for a half-marathon met me at my 6 mile point and joined me for the next 10 (5 out, 5 back). When we were done with that, I only had 4 to go straight back.

I kept saying to myself "I can't believe how good I feel!" I brought 4 powergels with me, but only used two of them. My goal was to finish in under 4 hours (running time), preferably 3:45. I met my goal and finished in 3:43:45 (Garmin/Motion Based time). Interesting that Motion Based says I ran 20.81 miles and Garmin Training Center puts it at 20.25. I don't know why the discrepency but, hey, who cares?

WTD: 43.81
YTD: 409.06