Best way to knock out a long run.....

Think about the reward at the end.  Today my reward was a bowl of steel cut oats with brown sugar, golden raisins, craisins, and toasted pecans.  Boring, I know, but it satisfied my need for something sweet after knocking out my 12 mile run.  What a beautiful morning it was with temps at the start of the run in upper 50's.  Anyway, pretty much a uneventful run.  No issues to speak of and I even tried out some new nutrition.  I tried the Clif Bloks (Orange Flavor).  Not bad.  I like the fact that you can eat them gradually instead of all at once like with gels.  I do really still prefer Gu gels though.

Doing long runs on Saturday leaves the afternoon for one thing this time of year.....football.  The bad thing about that is that my wife and I went to a watch party at a local watering hole where I preceded to eat a bunch of junk.  I had a 4 sliders, fries and 4 beers....not exactly a runners diet.  I need to start watching my food intake a bit more.  Hopefully I can share my quest to eat right at well.  I want to get my weight down to about 180 by race time....currently I am at 193.  I have time, but need to stay away from the burgers.  Tomorrow is a new day and I will rest knowing that I burned 1700+ calories today.  That makes my food sins a little more tolerable.

On another note, I got prescriptions to knock out a reoccurring upper respiratory infection.  Hopefully this ends the cycle of cough and hacking that seems to rear its ugly head about every 6 weeks.  Running actually makes it feel better, so that is good at least.

Daily mileage = 12 miles
Weekly mileage = 21 miles