6 miles easy long run, Oracle Trail, Saturday

As Narendra put it, this was the first Saturday in several months that we were running fewer miles on the trail than we drove to get to the trail :-) Yes, the Chicago runners (and we are in a big majority) were all doing 6 miles today and Srini ensured that we take it easy. So, we used up the first mile as a warm up mile, stretched at leisure for 10 minutes after this mile, and then continued in a relaxed manner. We picked up the pace a bit after 3 miles and finished the last 5 miles in under 49 minutes (but the mile markers were a bit off we felt). We did walk for about 30 seconds after each mile... Even though the walk break was almost insignificant, the mind gets comforted about the upcoming "rest". Strange, but breaking up a huge task into small pieces and taking them one at a time does wonders to self-confidence...

We were already done at 8:40am. I hung around chatting with everyone after the run and finally set back home at about 9.30am. There are too many things to do this weekend for us to prepare for the upcoming India trip...