Week 8: Mid Distance

Today I woke up in Virginia...not really. I woke up somewhere in Georgia and wound up in Richmond by 8pm. It was cold...very cold due to a cold front passing through from the previous weekend. Today's run started out as a short one - 10 to 15 minutes - just to flush out the legs from the 17 hour drive, but ended up turning into a great 45 minute hill session. You'd have to see the route I took to understand how I could spontaneously stretch my run out 4x longer than expected.

The road to my dad's house has a 3 tiered hill leading from the beginning to the end of the street. Each round trip lap takes me about 11:30 to complete. I did 4 laps. That was a bit longer than the workout called for, but the course by my house in Austin doesn't have many hills and I was long overdue for a little hill work.

The hills never feel good while you're running, but once you're done, boy do they feel great. After the first climb, I didn't even notice the temperature. Between my trusty yellow wind breaker and the sweats I borrowed from my dad, I was able to carry a nice sweat.

After the run, I had about a pound of pot roast and white house rolls. Did I mention my family are, across the board, hands down awesome cooks!! I washed it all down with a Tropical Punch XS Energy Drink, a joint health twist tube, and a couple glasses of water.

That night I slept well, knowing I'd earned the rest.