I had the day off of school so I took full advantage of the time. I slept in until 8:00am and made Jaren some breakfast while Allison went to the gym. I went running when she got back about 10:00am. It was nice weather so I was in shorts and a long sleeve shirt. Spring finally!. I did a loop that I have never done before and was tougher than I expected. I ran up by the Temple and kept going east into PG. I turned north on 9000 W. and headed toward Cedar Hills. The road went through a bunch of big farms and huge houses, but no big farm dogs luckily. The road took me right up to the Cedar Hills post office and canyon road. I continued the long climb toward the canyon. When I hit AF canyon I finally got some relief from the six miles of uphill. I found a nice paved trail, that I had no idea even existed, and followed it by a flood hollow and through a couple of golf courses until it came out close to Loan Peak High. I took the Loan Peak hwy all the way into AF to 200 N. and headed home from there. It was so warm that I could have used a short sleeve shirt instead of the long. It was a great run for me event hough it wiped me out. I did cough some but I also got up a lot of junk from it. I focused a lot on form, relaxing, and getting back into a running rhythm, all of which I have been struggling. It is like what Paul said the other day about how you can really tell your fitness when you go uphill or into the wind, I could really feel my lack of fitness in that first 6 miles with that long uphill. 1:18:02 (7:05 ave.) (Kayano- 16 miles) | 