And this one time, at training...

I thought it would be a good workout to go work with the local training group. It was. A grueling workout. Over trails. Lots of hills. Lots of branches. Lots of sand. Up hills. Lots of hills. Did I mention there were hills? According to Motionbased, some of these hills were a 30% grade. I made it..I ran up all the hills I could. I walked very little. I made it through at least 2.6 of the 3.4 miles straight running. And I felt it. Garmin said I was running anywhere from an 11 to a 14 minute mile. I felt like I was running 9 minute miles the whole time..I was WINDED! But wow, that's a great workout and one I want to do with them every Thursday.

There was a nice woman who I ran into at the start, and she hung out with me for her first loop of the trail. I kept telling her it would be okay if she wanted to take off and go faster, but bless her heart, she stuck with me and it really helped me to push myself a little harder than I might have otherwise. We got back to the starting point and she said her goodbyes and took off for a second loop. We had fun talking and I'll be running with her again on Sunday during the informal long run.

I was wearing my awesome John Bingham Racing shirt that I got in San Diego. The one that says..."I'm slow. I know. Get over it.". Three women were coming up behind us (presumably doing their second lap..sheesh) and started saying "Oh no you're not. No you're not." I had no idea what they were talking about and then when they passed me one of them turned around and said "You're doing fine! You're not slow!" I laughed and said thank you...and that I only bought the shirt because it was pink. ;) I like this group.

So my legs hurt now. I stretched but my lower legs hurt differently..probably because of all the uneven terrain. But it was fun and I'm totally pumped up for a short 2 miler in the morning. Then it's rest on Saturday for clinicals and off to a 7 mile long run on Sunday morning. Woohoo! It feels SO good to be back in training!