Kept waking up all night wondering if it was time to go run. Not sure why I was so excited to go run cause when time finally came I sure didn't feel like it any more. Legs started out pretty stiff, and I was just all around tired. Took about 5 miles into my 8 mile run to get in to it. Plan was to just run an easy pace 8 around the long inner Park circle. Started out as planned then when I got to the far side of the park I started feeling frisky. There is a pretty large up hill that cyclists tend to struggle going up, I made it a goal to start passing as many of the straggling cyclist as possible. I ended up only passing 2 but it was fun anyway. After that a guy came off of one of the trails about 100 M ahead of me running a pretty good clip so I made it my goal to use him as a rabbit, chased him for about a mile, finally caught him, talked to him for a few seconds and then off I went. When I got to the turn off I realized I was only going to be 7 miles so I cut across the park on some walking path and met back up with the main road. Was planning on taking the final loop nice and slow but I sensed that I was now the Rabbit. I could hear footsteps coming up behind me going up a slight hill. I looked back and it was some guy who obviously made it his goal to have me for breakfast. (figuratively) I picked up the pace to about 6:00 going uphill and to my surprise he stayed with me, at the top of the hill he started to pass me. I thought to myself "come on guy, do you really want to do this?" He did. We started going downhill at that point so I hit my 5:35 button (surprised I still had one) after that the poor guy didn't stand a change. I just started rollin' and never looked back. I was quite happy to get an un-expected speed workout in and happy to find I still have some kick in my legs. Now it's time for me to go catch some breakfast. In the Concierge lounge. 8.5 miles in 1:03:30
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