Because of me being sick for that last week and a half and me still having a nasty cough, I decided not to go to the 15k. Instead I went out on a run. I went out to the Cove pond and back, and then added a mile on Leila and back when I got home. The temperature was great, but the wind was crazy! Going up Juniper I thought I was standing still half the time. The wind started to switch to the west and coming out of Rose Canyon and the copper mines. I don't know how hard it was blowing but it was blowing big garbage cans down Butterfield Parkway and I was going about 9:30 pace on flat. I think I only got hit by about 15 tumble weeds! The wind was at my back for a lot of the way back and I was running 6:30 pace and felt like I was jogging. Because I my health and how hard that wind was blowing on the way out, my body feels like I ran 15 instead of 8. 1:00.03 for the 8 miles.
I was super glad that I didn't run the 15k if the wind was the same as in Herriman. I would have never made it with the wind and my cough.
I ended up with half the miles this week that I was planning on before I got so sick.
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