March 4 (103 miles/week)

AM: 23 miles easy/moderate

I took off on my own in the morning through Forest Hills Park, connecting that to the WaDuke trail where I picked up a big loop in Duke Forest before coming back home through campus. This meant plenty of hills were on tap.

Despite getting in 2:35+ of running, I never really felt weak out there, even toward the end as took no liquids or gels during the run (maybe I'll call these depletion long runs "TSA Runs"). I even finished with kind of a spring in my step. This is definitely a positive sign heading into the last few hard weeks of training before Boston.