Yesterday I was having trouble keeping my eyes open during my 3 mile run. 18 hours later my energy had returned, so I planned on running a 12 mile SF loop. When I reached mile 11 at the arboretum I still felt strong, so I veered off course to the hill and started running up and down. I did not feel like counting reps, so I set the stopwatch on my ipod and then got into a nice running groove. 2 ripped university girls started doing hill sprints on the west side of the hill 10 minutes after I started. Then a guy in silk purple basketball shorts starting doing sprints on the west side also. I was running north/south, so occasionally I would see them chugging hard at the top, then bending over from great exertion. One of the girls stopped after 12 reps, but the other girl kept going, I think she did 20, which was awesome. When I started feeling tired I checked the stopwatch and saw that I had run the hill 56 minutes, so to make it an even number I kept going until 1 hour, then I took off for the final mile to JJ's. My legs were starting to get stiff, so I took the last mile easy. Throwing in 1 hour of hills after more than 90 minutes of running is a great workout. When I got to JJ's I told the counter girl to put enough mustard on the sandwich to wake me up. I earned my sandwich today.....
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