Out of difficulties grow miracles

Just an easy 4 miler today. i ran on the middleton wash trail down a little way from artic circle with a bunch of apartments on the side. It is a super fun run with hills, bridges, tunnels, and a little bit of ice. Had side aches pretty much the last half of the run. My shins don't hurt as much as they did saturday, that's a relief.

Hard workout today with 4, 1000 repeats, and lifting after. I did really well hitting the right times for my 1000's every time. My first three were faster than needed then the. Then the fourth i was just a couple seconds behind. It was so hard to keep going after the second one, and i really had to push on the fourth one just to come even close to the right time. However I felt proud of myself afterwards being able to do better and hit the right time even if i did feel crappy.

ran 6 miles plus striders at the end coming up with 7 miles total. On the six miles we had 1-2:00 min fartlek and 2-1:00 min fartleks. It was fun running in the rain. i found that i can stay closer to the older, faster guys easier its pushing me to go even faster. Anyway a little after the last fartlek I had a hard time to keep my legs going but i pushed to stay with the other guys and after a while the fatigue went away and it was easier to stay up. The striders were a interesting experience, after the first two my feet went numb and felt like i was running on carpet, like i said interesting

AM 3 easy miles to artic circle felt so good on that run. 

PM- 5 easy miles, Ran on some trail by somewhere that i don't really know how to get to. There was a lot of hills and climbing it was still fun. defiantly easier on the way back I was kind of letting my self run down as fast as i could on the down hills until i had a thought of me tripping and landing on my face then rolling down the rest of the way, scary. then i got over it and enjoyed the rush of going that fast. great view when we got to the top it was fun to enjoy the amazing view for a while. Overall it was quite fun

Ran a 6 miler today with a LT pace for 20 min. I was invited to run with all the guys but i had things to do and wanted my breakfast to settle in first. The run by itself was hard but the LT pace was extremely hard. I had hard time to even keep my AT pace at times i just couldn't get my legs moving at the right speed. It was fun to run in the rain which was an upside to the hardness. but another downside is when i finished my shins just hurt like crazy all of the sudden they have been doing that a lot lately and don't know if i should be worried, but in the mean time icing and rolling for me.