AEROBIC BUILDER
We had another decent-sized group this moring with Bret, Jace, Bryant, Dave, and Jon. It was dark early in the run and we were on the parkway with headlamps. All of the sudden we heard an animal charging us from out of the bushes. My first thought was skunk, but then it made a ferocious sound that only a large blood-thirsty animal could make. I flashed my headlamp at the huge beast and saw not one, but two sets of eyes glowing in the headlamp. Both creatures were charging but then retreated once I shined them pretty good with my light. Turns out it was two small cats, on of which was a kitten...haha. It scared the crap out of all of us though and I said, "Well, no need to warmup anymore more, our heartrates are plenty elevated". It was pretty funny looking back on it. We all thought for sure we were going to be attacked. And in our defense it really did sound like a much larger animal than two small cats when it charged and "roared" at us.
On to the run itself. Bryant and I ran together again. We weren't sure how our legs would respond from high mileage and still feeling sluggish from Monday's long run. But it turned out pretty dang good actually. 8 miles at a 5:11 average. They all felt really good and in the aerobic range, except for the last one. Bryant picked that one up to a 5:04 and it was slight uphill into headwind. I think we left the "aerobic" range on that one, but otherwise all the 5:10-5:13s we threw down felt pretty aerobic. So, I'm thrilled with it.
PM: 5 miles easy around South Weber. I've seen the same dime on the road the last 7-8 easy runs I've done in South Weber and today I finally worked up the energy to bend over and pick it up. It's been there for weeks, if I didn't pick it up how much longer would it have stayed there?
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