Low of 20, high of 42, goal of 31

It will probably be about 20 degrees at 5:45 Saturday morning when I meet my running buddies to drive to the Frosty 50k in Winston-Salem. The course is an elongated horseshoe shaped trail around Salem lake. One way around the horseshoe is just under 8 miles. We will run that out and back. And then we will run that out and back again. The goal is to run 31 miles, my first race that is more than 26.2 miles.

I probably feel a bit too relaxed about this, considering I haven't specifically trained for this. I did my marathon in November, but since then I've been in maintenance mode. My longest distance since is 19 miles, broken down as 13.1 half marathon dressed as Santa, a 25 minute break, then 6 more pacing a friend in the full.

Since then I've done a 10, 14.5, and 8 mile long runs with some 5-6 milers in between. My weekly average has been about 30 miles.

I would like to be able to run the 31 mile in less than 4 hours, but that means a 7:40ish pace and I don't know if I could do that for that distance.

We shall see what happens...