Fuel It Right

Decided to add a hill, havent been doing them like I should. Went from home and went up Center on the way back.  I've had a bad canker in my mouth for the last few days and havent been able to eat solids very much.  Trying to get enough calories but its hard without eating normal meals.  So far my enery feels good, hope it last for the rest of the week.

Lifted upper

Eating sucks, I don't even want to!  Still feeling good so I'm happy about that.  Whimped out and did a TM run.  It's really windy and pretty chilly. Did 4 at and avg 9:30 pace, 1 at a 2.5 incline at 10:00 and the last 2 at 9:10 pace.  Felt really good.  Now for another protein shake w/ powder vitamins.. YUM!

No taper for me, I'll just treat Saturday as a training run.

Evening run w/ Chris.  Started at the mouth of the canyon and went up some.  at 3 I told him we could turn around and he said I had to suffer through while he burned more calories so we went up just past Nuns Park and back.  Felt really good.

TM before work. Felt super.

I think a 25K is 15.5 or so but my mom said her garmin clocked 16 so I'll take it. 

All in all I feel really good about the experience, especially considering my lack of hill/trail training.  I ran really conservatively, cause I didn't really know what to expect, so except for one of the hills I felt strong and comfortable the whole way.  We got to the island and it was so cold! So I layered up.  Within the first 5 min I could tell I was over dressed and started to shed clothing.  Temp ended up being perfect.  It was cool but not too cool, I didn't even need that much water other than the aid stations.  I took a hammer gel at each of the stations and ate a pbj quarter at the 2nd one, plenty of energy.  Not gonna lie.. I kinda felt like a kid out there climbing up hills, jumping over rocks and playing tag with the kids next to me(in my head).  The whole thing went by pretty quick, especially the last 5 or 6 after the last aid station.

I am really curious what my split are but I have no idea, shoulda borrowed Jos's garmin.  Oh well, except for a few blisters on my toes, it was super fun.