Today was a weird, weird day on South Mountain. After spending the whole day in the car, I arrived a little before 6pm to perfect weather. I decided to run my favorite orange loop backwards, targeting about 3.5 miles but doing the first mile on a non-technical section. I was wary of tightening up as I did two days earlier so I tried to take it pretty easy. Right before the first mile clicked off, I fell badly, tripping forward (the same way I always fall) and took a chunk out of my palm while bruising the outside of my knee.
I shook off the fall and coasted the next mile which was mostly downhill. Then when it changed to straight uphill, the trail beat me and I had to walk a couple sections. I think that little rest helped me catch a second wind though because I finished up the orange loop relatively strong despite some more uphill. My IPod also seemed to play a string of great running music and I was running free and easy at 3.5 miles when I got to the end. I actually felt so good that I decided to lengthen my run to 4 miles, then 5, then 6. At 5.95 miles, a mere 30 seconds or so from stopping, I spilled again right on the same spot and now had a really bloody hole in my hand. A small price to pay for this breakthrough run.
Splits
8:55
8:40
11:22
9:08
8:50
8:55
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