I had to drag myself out for this one. I know it gets dark early in December, but with the thick clouds and gloom, people were driving with their headlights on at like 4:00, which is what time I was trying to pull myself out of a chair and into my running gear. Driving to the trailhead it was pretty much dark and spitting rain, I sat in the truck for a while, kinda rolled out and started walking up the trail, then running, 5 minutes in I figured I'd turn around at 20 minutes, 15 minutes in I felt great and was rolling. Funny how just getting going fires the jets. Ended up doing just under 10 miles with 1650 vert on the North BST. Felt great and managed an alright pace considering the last 2.5 were completely dark and my headlamp was low on batteries.
9.85 miles, 1650 vert, 8:45 ave, easy to moderate effort.
Ran 8 minutes faster tonight than I was averaging the same route last spring, and that was with a slow last couple of miles due to the dark. Effort was much eaiser tonight than it felt last spring, even though it was faster. Huh, improvement, imagine that! | 