Since I have been home, we pretty much have still been in winter until yesterday! Yesterday was the first day we surpassed 80 degree temps :) It's nice to finally get some warm weather after all the rain we've been having lately. But it does make running a little more difficult if I don't get up and do it early in the morning because then I have to wait until after 8 to get it in. On Tuesday, I did my run around 8:15 and went on the trail along the river. I decided that I will probably no longer be doing that run at that time anymore...bad idea! Forgot that bugs come when the sun is setting, definitely got bugs flying at me in my eyes and mouth! Wasn't too much fun running with my eyes closed on a dirt path but I managed and ran through the swarm of bugs. Also with the weather not warming up, all the plants and trees are not drying out which leads to allergies still being extremely bad which makes it really difficult to get up in the mornings because my eyes feel like I've been crying for days so yesterday ended up being a 2 miles treadmill run in the afternoon followed by a great weight workout :) sometimes there can be benefits to running on a treadmill haha.
So this morning's run ended up being just a little bit longer than planned. My swim coach Ervin is wanting me to cross train a couple of the girls on the swim team so I am taking them out running with me every Monday and Thursday. Since they are not used to running at all, I'm slowly easing them into it. So Monday I took them out for a small 2 mile run but added in a tiny hill up the overpass to push them a little harder. Then today I was only planning on doing a 3 mile run but the loop I took ended up being 3.8, also adding in 2 overpasses to today's run so we got in 2 little hills to climb up. I wish I had a great big park to take them to here so its prettier/more enjoyable than running through town all the time. But one of the girl's lives on a ranch and so I think next week we're going to go there and do a run in the orchards!
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