So today we took a little field trip to Griffith Park for this morning's run. I'd never been there before, and it is a really cool park in the middle of LA- I had no idea how big it was. We had to be there at 7:30 AM, and it is a good 1/2 hour away from my house, so it was an early morning. Low and behold, there was some sort of construction or something, so even at 7 AM on a SUNDAY, there was traffic. I was stopped on the 110 freeway for about 10 minutes. Gotta love LA!
So today's run was 8.5 miles, but I might venture to say that it was the toughest run we've done so far. The first 1.25 miles was flat, and then we went off the asphalt for some trail running. Our coach Marissa said it would be hilly, and she wasn't lying. The next 3 miles were INTENSE. We're talking about some hills that were steep inclines where we'd be going uphill for a 5 or 6 minutes, and then pretty steep downhills for the same amount of time. We basically did 1 1/2 miles through the trail to a water stop, then we turned around and did the same thing back. The tough thing about that was knowing on the first half- ok- this downhill is going to be a TOUGH uphill on the way back. It was a WORKOUT and I know I'm going to be sore tomorrow, but I'm glad I conquered it. A girl I was running with has done the Nike Women's marathon in San Fran before, and she said the hills today were worse than the ones there, so that was good.
So after the hills we were only through with about 5 miles of our 8.5 mile run. We came off the trail and did a 2 mile loop around a golf course, and then jogged another 1 1/2 miles up back to where we started.
It was a good workout, and I felt MUCH better than I did last week. I think I made better food choices, and it was overcast and cool, which really helped. I'm back to feeling good about it, even though I had several "what the heck was I thinking" moments on the trail today.
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