It was a lovely morning for running. Besides a slight wind coming out of the south, it was a balmy 43 degrees. I met Emily at Murray Park and we ran around the Murray/Holladay area. It was super hard to warm our bodies up and we thought about calling it quits around mile 2 (but we were only kidding).
The original plan was to run 16.6 miles (so I could get 60 miles in for the week). I am totally OCD when it comes to running even distances. If I would have run 59.4 miles for the week, I would have been so upset that I didn't run the extra .4 to make it an even 60. Hi...my name is Jen...I have an even numbers running problem :p Anyways, we accidentally added an extra 1.5 miles at the end of our run so we ran 18 instead. Emily and I were so tired around mile 17 that we started yelling at each other like an old married couple. She said she hated me, I said I hated her, I told her she was running on the wrong side of the street, she elbowed me a couple times... But once we had Murray Park in our sights, we said we loved each other and we made up. It was funny and totally sarcastic! 7:18 AP. Our last few miles were sub 7:00.
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