Mountains beyond Mountains

This has been finals week and  my running, tragically has not been what it should. I was still happy to get out and run a little today. I still need to find a sea level marathon for sometime in the spring

This run is so easy mentally for me because i can break it into four sections that don't seem to hard. My bread and butter 8.8 miler. Some snow and traffic dodging are the downsides, and sometimes i have to wait for the lights which sucks but still had a really enjoyable run. 

URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4196326 

did my usual route with an extra out and back to make 10. nice run and I really don't care that its not warm outside, I just love to run

This went from awful to great. Started out okay... I was really tired today. The goal was 10, which is really my daily milage goal (per the advice of Sasha to run 10 miles everyday with the long run being 20.) I was ready to call it 2-3 miles in. Just that point where the fibers in the legs are aching and you feel like you might collapse or fall asleep running. I just made it to the top of the first hill section and told myself I could finish. Made it to about mile 6 felt really good. I ran negative splits the last 4 miles and was really happy to be able to finish. These are the kind of runs that really aren't possible on a treadmill for me, its just too easy to quit on a treadmill so I treasure every single day I can go outside and run.