Good Long Run

Nice long run today.  I got my butt up nice and early and got started about 5:15 am.  It wasn't too warm and the humidity was decent. (70 to 79 by the finish).  My daughter and her husband were gone for the weekend on a camping/camping trip, so we were scheduled to let the dogs out this morning for them.  So instead of driving over to their place, my wife asked if I could run in that direction and let them out.  I thought it was a good idea and so that's where I headed.  It turned out to be a touch under nine miles one way.  But I wanted to do more than eighteen miles, so I took a round about way back home and ended up with a bit over 25 miles.  I then added another three miles with our dog, Pepper, for a total of 28+ mikes for the day and almost 5 hours on my feet.  Went with a run 10 minutes, walk 2 minutes strategy and it worked well.  Depending on how the walking breaks fell I stayed between about 9:30 and 10:40 miles.  Felt pretty good the whole run.  I will be going with this strategy again in a couple more long runs to be sure, but I'm pretty sure this is what I am going go with for the Hennepin Hundred.  It gives me a real nice pace, but still have rest periods.  I will try to keep it up for as long as possible and adjust when I need to.  This will probably be my last real long run until Howl in less than two weeks.  Oh, and I had no digestive problems. Yeah!!