No more miles

Today was the last long run before the Oakville half-marathon, which will serve as the last long run before the Muskoka 70.3. Given that this was a hard training week, and not recovery like last week, it should be no surprise that I didn't have the same spring in my step. In fact, the effort yesterday helped deaden things quite a bit.

I kept things really easy for the first loop, posting one of the slowest times I've had. Mentally, I had a hard time getting into the run, constantly thinking about ditching at the end of the next lap. Among the recommendations from the voices in my head were:
"Just quit after 5 miles. That's enough."
"OK, add on the 3 miles, but 8 is plenty."
"Skip the second three-miler and go straight to the 5 for 13 total."
"Nope, we've changed our minds, quit after this 3 for 11 total."
"Fine, we'll do the full 16, but we're going slow."

I dragged my way through the last loop, not a record, but not a bad time either. I can't expect to set the road on fire every time out, and with one last speed session to go on the run (not counting the races), I think I've packed all the "go-fast" into my legs as I'm going to get. We've already seen that with even partial rest, I can turn it out at a good clip. What should be the over/under on how many I pass on the run course?

Run: 16.9 miles, 43:39/41:52