Elite Jogging For Dummies

Wow, it was really foggy out this morning. I am sure I inhaled more than than my share of fine particulates.  The fog did help shroud a VPB stop, so there was that upside. I ran the U/Avenues/Memory Grove Loop.

Black Sheep workout. We met at Popperton Park. After about a mile of warm up on 11th Avenue, we started running hills. And then we kept running hills ... up, up, up until there were no more hills to run, just the dead end at the top of Terrace Hills Drive. Then we ran down a bit so we could find some more hills and then we ran those.  Eventually, gravity required that we return to our cars and go home. 

My legs felt a little heavy from yesterday's hill overdose. I trudged around for 6.6 miles enjoying the winter conditions. 

It was chilly out this morning and felt colder than the reported 19 degrees. There was still a dusting of new snow as well.  I ran out and back to This is the Place. I like to run out there close to Christmas because the Pioneer Village is adorned for the season and early in the morning when there is no one around it feels nearly genuine.  The village is a little hokey (perhaps it reminds me of a Thomas Kinkaid painting), but its setting is a convincing reminder that the world of abundance and sensory overload that we inhabit today is something new and different. There were people here long ago, including my own relatives, that endured much more to survive and make a living than we can fully appreciate today.

After taking Christmas off I was looking forward to running.  I ran a southern loop that took me just about to 2100 South and 2300 E before circling back up through my childhood neighborhood up on to Wasatch Boulevard, and returning home through the U.  The air was not great and it was very cold, but it felt good.