I love running in the mountains! It is so beautiful and the weather is so perfect. The only problem is the lack of oxygen! Actually I am proud of us. My parents live at 10,000 feet. That's a lot higher than where we live in New Mexico. Last year when we came up to visit, Seth and I went running. We ran for about five minutes and we were dieing. It really bothered my asthma and I had a hard time breathing. I lost my voice afterwards and coughed most of the day. In short it was pretty sad. With that in mind we were pretty wary about running up here again this summer. Since we usually to a 20 minute run we decided to power walk for 5 minutes, run for 10, then end with another 5 minute power walk. So we did our 5 minute walk. Then we ran. After 10 minutes we felt good so we ran for the next 5. We ran for 15 minutes at 10,000 feet! Wow! And we still felt good afterwards. So tomorrow we are planning to start with the 5 minute walk again but then run for 20 minutes. We are pretty proud of ourselves. By the way. We did not get eaten by a bear. That is a pretty great accomplishment right there :P
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