Greeeeeen Acres is the place for me!

RUN: 70 mins and 8.4 miles, 3x [400 80-85%; 800 85-90%; 800 80-85%; 400 85-90%] 800 rest between repeats.The intervals totaled 2400, averaged 11:24 mins, 7:39m/m
BIKE: 80 mins and 23 miles
COMMUTE: 40 mins and 6 miles

I woke up with that song in my head this morning, no idea why. Then after seeing a commercial during the bike intervals I had the Tequila song in my head.

Completely gorgeous morning run with DC. Some clouds hid the sun until about 6:20am or so, but they had a beautiful golden lining to them--just picture perfect :)

My hip muscles are still sore from the trail run on Sunday, doing a track workout may or may not have been a good idea but it's done and I'm no worse for wear at the moment. My quads were jelly in the 2nd set. I was certain my times would lag between the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd sets but they stayed roughly the same.

Both today and Sunday I found moments in which I was tempted to quit. When TH and I started back out for miles 14.6-19, I had a few doubts about what I was doing. Same thing today--moments of doubt when I wondered if I could do it. Not whether I should, but rather if I could. These are the moments I need to carry forward into Redman. I needed them for CDA run, in which I was able to keep running physically but not mentally. I didn't have the focus needed to keep going, and I didn't have the heart.

These are my Crucible Moments--defining moments in time, which will transform and challenge me. At those moments, I'm faced with the option of quitting and the option on continuing. I almost always continue in training, especially with a group. But for some reason in CDA I quit pushing the race. I would be running and just come to a walk, and I'm certain it was a mental thing. It was also nutrition--I needed to eat to fuel the brain that I needed to push the run--but in the end it was mental. I needed to make the choice to eat so I could make the choice to run. Am I making sense?

So when Redman rolls around, I need to look back to these moments when I took the harder of the options (to keep climbing the hill and to keep the interval going) and came out ahead for doing so.