Training in Montana

12 miles from home this morning. Woke up 10 minutes before the alarm (how does that happen?) and got ready and left by 5:15. Got me back home just before 7, the bewitching hour at the Hall house (for me). Run was pretty solid. Legs sore but not too sore. On the way out I was pretty slow, but the return had me going pretty strong. The out is 3 miles up, 3 miles flat and down, so the return miles 6-9 should've been slow but my body & mind really like going uphill so I hit a higher gear and while I wasn't booking it was a solid 8:30 and I could definitely feel the soreness in my quads which was pretty awesome.

AP: 8:32

Ran a slightly different route today than normal as I wanted to run up my hilly road and end at my house. Normal route is running down to my house. Legs are tired, looking forward to a break tomorrow.

I also had a bloody nose from mile 1-3. In nearly 5000 miles of running I've never once had a bloody nose. So glad I wore my black gloves today with snot rags on the fingers. They soaked up the blood well. When I got home I laughed as my lime green singlet was spattered with blood. For 1/2 mile I thought I was blowing snot rockets but apparently they were animated rockets instead.

AP: 9:01

12 miles from home. Rained quite a bit last night so the first 3/4 of a mile were very sloggy and muddy. I decided to run up my normal long route which I normally only do on Saturdays and I'm glad I did. A nice challenge for a Friday morning. I plodded up my Veyo hill and continued on. About mile 10 1/2 while going up a hill I felt a twing in my right outer quad. Nothing bad, didn't need to stop or slow down, but I felt it a few times. Very odd as I've never felt that before. I have felt lots of niggles this week though as the 28 mile effort brought out some odd feelings in my legs. With a mile to go the urge to relieve myself got very strong and I had to drop a deuce on the side of the road. It was my last safe place to do that before getting home. It's a nasty job but glad I had my wipes with me.

AP: 8:50

20 miles starting at 12:15 pm. It was good to run in some heat, but it was tough. I am not used to it. From 66 with 58% humidity to 74 with 48% humidity. A decent East wind helped cool me off most of the time. I recently bought a good running visor and I like it a lot. It definitely keeps the sun off my face. 

I ran a different route and gained 1370 feet elevation at different times. It was a good run, my last long run before the race. 3 Saturdays from today. 

AP: 9:45

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