Last run of the year- it was fantastic. 9x60 sec fartlek workout (we're supposed to have lower mileage this week). I warmed up 18 minutes to the desert-- it's all bulldozed! A trail that I ran on as recently as Thanksgiving break now just ends halfway to the reserve. It's all been flattened. It makes me so so sad. Anyway, I warmed up to the top of the baby hill on Middleton Powerline trail, then started my fartleks. I realized pretty quickly that the trail I was on was going to end (at the water tower) before I got enough fartleks in, so I turned on another trail that heads out in the direction of Middleton. As I was going, I was thinking: "this looks so familiar!" THEN I REALIZED. It was the same trail we ran on a few summers back on a Friday straight from the depths of heck. We started at Middleton Park and headed out into the desert and nearly died of heat exhaustion + boredom-- I had NO IDEA the Middleton Hell Trail connected to my desert. It was much more pleasant today than it was that day in the summer so long ago. I was originally only going to do 8 fartleks but I felt so good and my final one was pretty much all downhill, so I decided to do an extra for good measure. Cooled down 10 minutes to mi casa.
Also Mia and I went to Dutchman's and Mia is 120% sure we saw Coach Roberts' wife there because we watched her get into a minivan with a flower air freshener hanging from the mirror and evidently "that's totally them." Whatever.
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