6:30am start- approx 46 degrees
8.51 miles, 10:08 Pace
Long hill work
First time in a while I've committed to a long run thats comprised almost exclusively of hills. This will be the beginning of a normal thing- my long runs will all have hills in them now. This being the fist session in a while meant the pace was slowed down quite a bit. The huffing and puffing and chugging up a mile long hill, then turning a corner to have about another .5 of rolling, increasing hills.... its a tough thing to face both mentally and physically. This was a good run in that regard- I faced my nerves of hills head on, and was reminded that it is possible to conquer them, even if it a gets a bit ugly.
i know I had profound thoughts while on this run- things I wanted to write down, things i wanted to add to this- but i was too busy to get to writing it down right away, so they're gone.
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