There was a lot of snow and hail over the weekend, but it looked nice outside this morning. I was happy to not have to run in the snow again. But around 11 the clouds rolled in and it started raining, hailing, and snowing again. The wind was blowing hard. I looked at the radar and it seemed the storm would blow over by about 1. At 1:30 it was finally clearing up, so I headed out. The wind was still strong and cold, but at least it wasn’t wet.

I started off fairly strong and seemed to keep it up through the first two miles. I even went fairly quickly up the big hill on Ironwood and Sycamore. When I rounded the corner at the top of Sycamore onto Sandalwood it all started to fall apart. I fell into a 1/3 breathing rhythm, which felt very wrong. It wasn’t long until I had a side ache. I tried to get my breathing back in line, but it was hard. I finally found a 2/2 rhythm as I headed down the last hill, and snapped back into a 2/3 going up the other side.

As I headed around Mesquite, I figured I was still on track to set a new personal best. I was right.

30:37

That’s going to be tough to beat. Up to this point, there have been obvious areas for improvement, but there are less and less of those. It’s definitely going to be interesting to see what happens next.