Good Long Run Today

It was a good day.  Spring has definitely arrived with the temperatures at the beginning of today's run at 66 and at the end, 79.  It is two weeks before Starved Rock.  With the terrible last weekend at the Frankfort half keeping me from adding an extra 7 to 8 miles for a long run, I needed to get in the long run this weekend.  So I set out to get in a 20 miler.  I decided to do a very large loop with one bottle, but stay around civilization so I could stop someplace for a refill.  It worked out very well.  Hit a 7-11 at about the 13 mile mark and bought a Gatorade and bag of chips.  I felt good pretty much the whole run with mile splits between 9:10 and 9:45 depending on the terrain and direction of the wind.  Ended up going 22.1 miles in three and a half hours.  Very satisfactory.  I am now feeling much more ready for the marathon at Starved Rock.  My confidence is high and I'm feeling fit.