9 Weeks To Go

• I had a nice long 11 mile run this week over a new course. I left my house in SE over the Sellwood bridge, ran along the west side of the river, crossed the Hawthorne, and back towards my house via Springwater trail. 
• This definitely broke up the loop I had been doing for the past 2 months on long runs. I was thinking that Sunday morning I would be one of the few people doing this run. Apparently it's one of the most popular runs in some form or another to run across the bridges in a loop. I past several of the same people going the opposite way as me. I came across one guy running across the Sellwood and then again on the Hawthorne. 
• I was pretty sore from the run the rest of the day and Monday. I did a cross training day Monday. Then I did 5 miles on the treadmill Tuesday. The hardest part was mentally doing 5 miles on the treadmill. 
• I'm going to try this weekend to run close to 12-13.1 miles and do the same bridge loop but by going one more bridge to the Morrison it will add a mile.