Stayed over night at at a cabin near Strawberry Reservour for our ward's youth conference Friday night. Got up at 6:00 a.m. to run to run 18 miles. This run turned out to be much more difficult than I anticipated.
I ran an out and back, 1 mile down the dirt road to the main road and a very hilly main road by the reservour. Hills the whole way, not so bad on miles 2-5 and miles 15-17. Miles 6 to 14 were mile long ups and downs. The last mile up the dirt road to the cabin I stopped a couple of times to walk several steps. It wasn't much steeper than all the other hills it was just mile 18.
At mile 15 1/2 I wished I had turned around after 8 and only gone 16 and going up the dirt road at the end I decided if someone from the ward drove by on their way to the cabin I would hitch a ride, but no one came. I'll sleep well tonight. Average pace 7:36 min/mile. (lots of fluctuation on the ups and downs) |