Running

I was running pretty regularly before my return to grad school.  Not surprisingly, running faded away to a distant memory as my indentured servitude school progressed (not unlike visiting family and friends, reading, eating dinner with my husband, etc.).  I started running again a few months ago, once I was free, but the running was painful and ugly.  I ran a 10k in August at the Scandinavian Festival in Junction City and it was not good.  But I've been slowly getting back into shape.  I basically starting all over from scratch.  Then, last weekend I ran in the Great Pumpkin run 10k and it was good!  I felt sluggish and tired for the first two miles, as is usual for me, then warmed up and by mile 4.5 I felt loose and was hitting my stride.  I actually ran the last mile faster than any of the previous miles and I could have kept going!  Riding that high, I did a local trail run that has a tough (for me) mile long hill climb and it wasn't as bad as I remembered, from years past.  In fact, it was so not awful, I'm doing it again tonight.