A look at the 2.5 miles

I wanted to post about the 2.5 miles I ran on Sunday. It was a huge accomplishment for me on a few levels.
I have not really gone for a run in a while. After the Track Workout last week, I had been thinking that I needed to start running again. The mud run is a LOT about the obstacles, but the more comfortable you are with the running in between, the better off you are.

I will start out by saying I did not leave my house with intention of running, so to speak. I went out for a walk, which, in the back of my mind I knew meant at LEAST a walk/run. After warming up my very sore hamstrings, I started jogging. I actually felt GOOD. I mean, not even really out of breath for a little bit. Until I started hitting all the hills.

I live in a condo and all around us are hills. I mean, you can't go 1/4 mile without some kind of hill. Once I started up the hills, I had to start talking to myself.

"Come on, you can make it up this one. Then, if you have to, you can walk for a minute"

Then I would make it up the hill, and I would say

"Well, now this is better, it's going down hill a little. Might as well run this"

So on and so forth.

I ran further than I intended. I started looking at the hills as a challenge that I knew I could face. I got to my turn around point. Tired. Fully expecting that I would walk up these 2 massive hills that I just took so much joy in running DOWN.

But I didn't. I started running back up. I just kept running. I ran all the way up to the top of those hills. I gave those hills a mental middle finger. Can't beat me, bitches.

The only times I walked was when I feared for my safety on these winding hills with no sidewalks. I have to run in the street, and sometimes I thought cars coming didn't see me, or just didn't care I was there! (It was getting dark on my way back, so I was trying to be extra careful)

I got about 4 blocks from my home, and I was walking for a little cool down. I was on one of the small sections of flat ground we have around us and I decided to sprint from where I was up my driveway. Sprint for me is probably normal running for others, but dammit, it was a SPRINT for me.

Invigorating. Exhausting.

I couldn't wait to collapse at home. The whole day we were moving my in-laws, who didn't believe that my husband and I could carry their old, HEAVY couch and loveseat out the door. But we did. And lifted it up to get it in the dumpster. Then I showed off my guns. Don't TELL me I can't do something. Just WATCH.

Eats for today:
1 scoop click, 1/2 cup almond milk (unsweetened)
B: Pumpkin oatmeal
L: 4 oz ground turkey, seasoned, 100 gr sweet potato, 2 oz cabot 75% red fat cheese
S: banana, 2 tbs peanut butter
D: Lrg salad. 3 cups chopped salad greens and peppers. 10 green olives, banana peppers, 1/4 cup chick peas, 2 tbs less oil good seasons dressing

This will round out my day with 1273 calories. If I am starving later after my workout, I will eat something. I want to keep my calories under control and my macros in check, but I will eat a little over if I am starving after my workout - macro appropriate, of course.

So, my friends, what HILLS have you conquered lately?