VT Dad’s fight vs. inertia & flab

Two of my kids take music lessons in Montpelier on Thursday afternoons.  Montpelier is about a 45 minute drive from my house, and today the weather on the way there was foreboding, windy with scattered icy showers.  As my kids began their lessons I prepared for my run.  I decided to put on an extra legs layer, and an extra hat, and had on my headlamp & flashing red light for my backside.  Dusk was already settling in as I began my run, and a cold wet rain was falling.  My footing was fine, and after 3-5 minutes the rains stopped, and the run was wind free.  This was my third time running this hilly route: about a ½ mile warm-up, then a steep 500 foot hill, a relatively flat 6/10th mile followed my hill #2 steeply uphill for ¼ mile then an uphill grade all the way to the turnaround point at ~2.35 miles.  The last time I ran this was 5 weeks ago, and today I bounded up the first hill.  I had a quicker recovery before the second hill, and kept a good pace while going up the second hill.  I kept a nice stride until the turnaround point, and continued to run well on the return phase, keeping my focus on the downhill leg.  I still find the steep down hills challenging, as I can’t keep get my leg turnover fast enough to fully take advantage of the incline.  It was a great run, I was over a minute faster than last month, and I look forward to reprising this run again next week.

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