I woke up at 5:30 AM and prepared myself for my long slow distance run for this week. After my 15-20 minutes of stretching, I was on the road, running along the 2-mile route I’ve measured inside the camp. This route is considered as hill workout due to the terrain in my area.

The following are my registered times every round of the 2-mile route:

                  2 miles——  19:32 mins

                  4 miles——  38:38 mins; 19:06 mins/round

                  6 miles——  58:06 mins; 19:28 mins/round

                  8 miles——1:17:13 hours; 19:07 mins/round

                10 miles——1:36:14 hours; 19:01 mins/round

                12 miles——1:55:42 hours; 19:28 mins/round

                14 miles——2:17:50 hours; 22:08 mins/round

                16 miles——2:42:37 hours; 24:47 mins/round

I finished my run with a 500-meter cool down jog. It was almost 9:00 AM. I took a longer time for my stretching exercises after the run. I felt pain on my right ankle before the 14-mile mark as my shoes and socks were soaked with my own sweat and rain. My wet New Balance 716 shoes became tighter to my feet as my right big toe nail started rubbing to the top-front edge of my shoes. I don’t want to have a “dead” toe nail as I had never experienced one before.

The pain on my right ankle and the rubbing toe nail made my run slower before completing my 7th round and ultimately, made my last round as my slowest run for the course. That gave me the signal to slowly end the running workout for the day. Besides, I was already hungry!

The intermittent rainshowers in the morning in Jamindan were very refreshing to my body.

It was a nice and refreshing Saturday Long Slow Distance run.