I have been looking forward today for a long time. I have been wanting to get in a good quality long run. It seems like with the holidays and travel it has just been really difficult. We headed out early to avoid traffic and ran a loop around the "big" block. Our plan was to repeat this 3 times and then add on a little at the end. During the second loop there was another close call with a car and I 'd had enough. We finished the second loop as planned and then wove around the neighborhood until we had reached our goal. We had 3.5 separate long uphill miles and then mostly flat with a few down hills. We used to run the loop one time and call it good and haven't run it at all in the last 3 months. I could really tell our training has paid off because the hill on the first loop was almost easy and the on the second loop it was more difficult but nothing like before and then our third hill was slow but not to bad considering it was in the 9th mile. I wish our overall pace had been a little faster but we felt very comfortable the entire time and could have added on and felt great. Ave pace 9:04 Happy Running!
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