Real David H.

One of the first roads I ran yesterday was Baltimore Avenue in Bedford. It was completely unintentional, I promise. All I was trying to do was start off the run with Duke on a slightly different route. It was the first time I’ve been on that road in several months. It just turned out to be very fitting as the first “official” long run for the Baltimore Marathon.

As I already mentioned, my first long run of this training session went well. In fact, the entire week was great. It included a fairly speedy 5k on a lunch run on Friday in 25:06, a time faster than several 5k races I’ve done. All of my runs just seemed to fall into place despite some intense heat the first half of the week. I also squeezed in a short watchless run with Duke on Thursday evening.

It was one of the best first weeks of training that I remember having. Perhaps it’s from being more focused this time around and talking about it more than usual. I have had “official” kickoffs before, but this time just seems so different.

Here’s a look at yesterday’s long run around Bedford, as well as the elevation chart: