Missouri and back 20 miler

20.28 miles in 2:32:54 – 7:32 pace.

I'm not sure about this run. On one hand it felt really good to get a long run in. This was my longest run in over 10 months. On the other hand, I'm not sure if I'm cut out to be a long distance runner. The first five miles were pretty rough. I was trying to keep my pace around 7:55, and when I go that slow, my shins and knees start barking at me. When I speed up to <7:45, all the pain subsides. I guess I could just try going faster, but I'm pretty sure I need those 8 minutes miles if I'm ever going to finish a marathon.

So I don't know how I feel, this run was supposed to be a litmus test to decide if I'm going to start training for the Kansas City marathon on October 17th, but I feel just as ambiguous about it as I did before the run.

Splits were:
7:58
7:59
7:51
7:38
7:50
7:48
7:50
7:25
7:43
7:41
7:36
7:37
7:39
7:45
7:09 - not sure what happened there :)
7:24
7:12
7:11
7:01
6:45
1:42 (.28 miles at 6:05 pace)