After 2 days rest, enforced by arctic gales and a sore back, I ventured out to do my LSR, back on the schedule which said 14 miles for today. I left home feeling good but wondering how the new shoes would feel after that time as I've only done 5 miles in distance in them so far.
I plodded, long and slow. The SIS gels were not too bad but did make things a little windy for a while. The cereal bar was ok and the Tesco orange sports drink was very strong. But it all propelled me along and I set out to do 14 miles and finished up doing 19. My legs were aching at 10 miles but I have this bad stubborn streak that seems to be getting worse as I am getting older so I just wouldn't give up. 3 hours 48 minutes later I got home tired, aching and very chuffed indeed.
The weather was much better than the last week, still cold and breezy but a pleasure to be out in it and there was even a little sun at times.
The reason for the extra long run was that I missed my 18 miles due to the tummy bug and I had another 18 miles planned for next weekend. My back was still twinging on and off this morning, so I decided that I could do 14 miles and not be able to run the 18 due to the back being worse or I could run 18 today and it wouldn't matter if I wasn't up to it at the weekend cos it would already be done. So I went for it and somewhere along the way I got muddled with the mileage and ended up doing an extra mile.
My back is no worse than it was yesterday and I now have a couple of weeks to stretch it and excercise it before I have to do another run like this.
Yes!!

19 miles
3 hours 48.36 minutes
Average pace 12.01
Average HR 148
Peak HR 166