ow. 9 miles is a long way to run. last time i did that, a 15k, was over 20 years ago, and i trained several months for that. i've only been running a month now. the hard part was on my legs & feet. plus i discovered if you go east past 50th, you start heading quite a bit uphill. that made it tough. i ran the route clockwise, so i did most of the uphill from the river to 58th in the middle of the run, not at the end. but i wish i had picked a route that skipped the hard uphill.

right now my knees and feet hurt quite a bit, but i did walk in the parade in Hillsboro this morning, too. we'll see how i am tomorrow. i'm going to bike a bit today; that will help. tomorrow is the Monmouth parade, so my cross-training day will be Monday, since i have to bike up to the Q Center anyway.

pace just under 13/mile. i'm pretty happy with that for now. if it's the same next week, with a 10-miler, i know i'll be on track for the marathon.