The Long Run

This week I started curling at the Philadelphia Curling Club and played games on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.  The curling cut into my time for marathon training and it showed up in today's long run.  The plan was to run twenty one miles and that is what the GPS says I traveled but I had to walk some of that distance during the last five mile loop.  Another interesting thing about the GPS, it showed I burned 2500 calories.  I ate my typical breakfast and consumed gels and gatorade while I ran but I was obviously I was in a calorie deficit.  I'll have to work on consuming more calories before I run and during the run or I'll never make it to the end of the marathon.

The weather was a sunny beautiful sixty degrees and breezy.  I was wearing two shirts and when the breeze stopped I was overly warm. The leaves and pine needles were falling and many photographers were out taking pictures of the fall foliage.  There were families in the park enjoying the day and flying kites.