Oh man oh man, is it getting tough to keep running my hill in this snow and ice. I slowed down today just because of the very fresh powder that was out there. My feet were slipping and sliding around like crazy.
Perhaps I should preface this post by saying that I really didn't want to be out there today. I didn't even get to the hill until noon...which is me dragging my feet as much as I could. I'm tired, I'm sore and yesterday I was thrilled to find out that the pinched nerve in my ankle wasn't a pinched nerve.
Tendonitis resulting from a super tight right side from the hip down. Prescription from the physio? Voltaren and Ibuprofen. No need to stop running. Love it. However I'm shit-bagged today and all I want is to stay on the couch and veg...but no one ever got to a 50km by giving into the desire to sit on their ass, so out I went.
Every part of me screamed all the way up the hill. I wanted to stop...I actually had to stop on the way up of every single freaking hill. Cheating? Yup. Did I care? Nope. I'd rather stop and grab a quick breathe out of the headwind than give up early and go home. I figure the rules of winter hills are different...you get to make them up as you go along since you're the only one out there.
My up hill times were 13:40, 13:20, 13:40. 12:59, 13:07 and 12:05 m/mile paced...no where near where they have been but it was also CD1 for me and all things considered I think that slow hills are better than no hills. Also when my hearts at 160bpm, it means I was working as hard as I could.
The hill sessions are becoming more about the mental upper of knowing I'm still at it, the ability to say I ran that hill all winter. That hill is what's going to get me to my 50km ultra...not the couch. I juts hope that the cold stays cold and the snow stays low. Crazy I know...so opposite of where I've been my whole life. Everyone else I run with is bitching about the cold. I'd rather run in that cold bundled up nice and tight than lose layers and slip around on that street...for now...ask me again in January...oh wait...in a little over a month I'll be running free and clear in the Caribbean.
Yeah. I can suck this up.
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