:/

My stomach is feeling back to normal, though!

Today was a marathon-pace workout. According to various calculators and my last 5K time, my VDOT value is 42.8 and my marathon pace is 8:16/mile. WHAAAAAA? Rounding down (incorrectly but more comfortably) to a nice round 42 yields a MP of 8:25/mile.

I didn't quite make it. I ran (suffered?) 12 miles of MP and my average pace was 8:27/mile, not including a few short walk breaks while taking gels and cooling off. I'm happy with that. The relatively refreshingly brisk temps of noon-ish yielded to a sunny clammy 27C or so. I started my run with a humidex of 35C.

Fortunately, I've gotten used to this sort of thing but acclimatization only goes so far. I should have eaten afterward but there was no way my stomach was going to accept anything but water. Other than that, I felt fine. My legs felt relatively fresh (had a timidly squeaking right hamstring but it shut up after an hour or so).

It was a valuable workout; I ran on the route of the marathon that I still haven't signed up for...I don't feel 100% recovered yet, but maybe a week of jogging, relaxing, and avoiding gluten up north will fix things. I'm bringing up GF stuff and will avoid scratched cookware and so forth. Will see how it goes!