Alli and I stayed up quite late last night, and my dog has been breaking into my room every morning (at some point in the few months since I left in August, she has learned to open doors, apparently) and waking me up, so I was a bit tired today. Also I spent a few hours helping my mom get ready for everyone to come over this morning (I made 110 pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. That is a lot of cookies). Anyway, at about one-ish, I decided to go out and get my workout in. It was GORGEOUS weather, because this is St. George and St. George knows how to do Thanksgiving.
Today I had a fartlek workout: 15 min warm-up, 10x60 sec hard w/ 2 min recovery, 10 min cool down. I drove out to the high school because I know all the routes & mileage from there. I decided to do Target/hospital run, without really thinking much about it.. mistake. I forgot that it gets trafficky here. Luckily, I made it through without dying or even having to modify my fartleks at intersections.
My warm-up got me to Sunrise Tires, then I started my fartleks. The first four got me down to the volleyball courts by the hospital (I didn't want to cross the street by Harmons & Zions. It was too busy, so I turned left and ran toward Foremaster. As a side note, Harmons has been redone and looks kind of scary now), then I turned around and did the next six on the way back. I finished exactly at the intersection by Arctic Circle. Somehow, big intersections always came either right before a fartlek or right after, so I never had to stop in the middle of a fartlek to wait for the light. The rest of the way back to the high school took a bit longer than 10 minutes (13, actually) because I was quite tired and also my arches/calves were killing me. I had to stop by the mall to try and stretch. I think I ran a bit farther than 6 miles today (maybe 6.5ish, since we always said 6 was the doctor's office sign) but I don't have a distance watch, so I'm just going with 6.
I saw Ali Jo running up by Green Springs, so maybe Alli and I will run with her tomorrow. I mean, if she wants to. Maybe she hates us. Also maybe Alli will whine enough that I'll kill her and then she can't run. That's been the pattern of our relationship today, so it wouldn't be a surprise.
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