Slowly Getting Faster

Still feeling tired.  I thought that after a few miles I would start to feel good and could get going faster but it never happened.  I'm not sure what is going on but I need to snap out of this funk soon. 

I spent the weekend in Bryce with my family.  I wanted to get a couple of runs in because it is so pretty here.  However, being that I was with the family, it was not very easy to accomplish.  Certain people get upset when I spend my time running instead of spending time with them.  So to compromise, on this day at least, I ran to the camp entrance to get an envelope to pay the fee for the campsite and back a couple of times, carried my 3 year old up the 400' climb out of the canyon, and ran back down to help get everyone else up.  

 The good news is that it felt good to run even at 8,000 feet. 

I got up early this morning, despite being awake for long hours the night before, and got out for a run. I wanted to traverse a good portion of the park, at least the frequently seen and traveled section of the park.  I started at Sunset Point, ran down Navajo trail, up peekaboo trail, and out to Bryce point.  Then I took the rim trail back to camp.  I was pretty tired when I finished but it was a beautiful run.  I had to stop multiple times on the peekaboo/bryce point trails for horses, which was annoying but oh well. 

It didn't feel very fast, which was disheartening.  I think that maybe some of my problem is that I am not meeting my own expectations for myself at this point in terms of my running.