Weekend Run and personal challenge
Posted by brianchurch on Dec 21, 2009
This weekend I returned to a three mile run-route that is mostly downhill for the first half and uphill on the return trip. My running mate (Kona, our dog) loves this route as we usually keep a quick pace on the downhill portion and if she had her way we would be sprinting at least 5 miles each day. I enjoy the downhill portion but my attitude changes as soon as we make our switchback and have an uphill return route. I can stay motivated and keep my feet moving until we reach the area orange highlighted area in the graphic above. That’s when the voices get really loud and convince me it’s time to walk.
So, one of my renewed personal challenges is to ignore the voices and defeat this hill, it will now be included in all of our run routes. Once I’ve killed this one I’ll move on to other, more intimidating hills in our neighborhood.
Which reminds me – I need to check the elevation map for the 1/2 marathon in June to see what sort of inclines are included.