June 15 - Blog Poll Question: 18 and 48 or 48 and 18?

I turned 48 today and celebrated with an 18 mile run.  To goad the masses of blog followers out of their recent silence, I ask the following philosophical question: would you rather be 18 years old with 48 miles to run, or 48 years old with 18 to run?  There aren't many Jason Lester's out there (see
www.r-u-n.us) so 48 miles would be a daunting task but after your done, man your 18 again!  I know I'm not giving you many ground rules so there will undoubtedly be unanswered questions (mine would be, do I have wear my cheesy 18 y/o mustache the entire time?  See pic below for an unfortunate reference point) but just wing it and let's see what responses we get.

Back to running....I'm ecstatic that I got the 18 miles in but it was a difficult run, especially the last 3 miles.  I planned to run a warm up mile, then 8 miles at 8:30/mi, then the next 8 at 8/mi and a cool down mile.  I felt okay through 15 miles, running right around an 8:15 pace overall.  However, when I reached the big hill on Levita Rd. at 14.3 miles, I started to hit the wall.  I recovered a bit to close out mile 15 but for 16-18 I was in my classic wall posture: blank stare, head tilted a bit a la Rain Man, and choppy old man steps.  After 15 miles at an 8:15 pace, the last three were at 9:35 or so.  Better to hit the wall in a training run than in a race, I suppose.

Fortunately I am recovering quickly and should be able to allow my loving family to lavish me with birthday surprises.  Or at least blow out some birthday candles.

I completed miles 659-676, passing the 2/3 mark.  I hit mile 665 which was sponsored by Robin Wildman back on March 11.  Thanks Robin!

Today's Line:

Date

DoW

ToD

Distance

Time

Min/Mile

Notes

Effort

Total Miles

6/15

Sa

10:50a

18.0

2:32:58

8:29:53

72f

8

676.5

The archive shows that the 'stashe survived at least to my junior year at UB-yikes!