Since Christmas day Ryan and I have been in Sundown spending time with my family. This reprieve from work and normal routine does not include a break from training. The first few days we ran four miles, a pretty good loop around town. Yesterday we ran six and I've realized that, although I prefer to run without repeating any part of the already run trail, Sundown's size forces a runner into looping; the track, the same one-mile loop several times, or a long loop just a few times. We have a long run coming up tomorrow, 8 miles and I'm thinking it might be best to just drive out of town 8 miles and run home. This would be better than looping in circles, right? When you run in circles it's so tempting to stop and not finish the run when you pass by your house with each loop and think, "dang, I'm already here. Why should I keep going?" I'm not sure I'll convince Jay and Ryan that running an 8-mile line would be better than running 8 loops around town, but I think I'd be better at running the 8 miles home instead of running by the house 8 times.
Oh and by the way, it's cold. I've included a picture my mom has taken to illustrate just how cold it has been.
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