I have more responsibilities since I change positions back in August. I'm not complaining about staying late, because many of the days, I have to get a few things done, but with such an early wakeup call, bedtime must be bumped up. I would prefer to get eight hours of sleep tonight, but the clock just struck 2200 as I'm writing.

Lately, I've been volunteering with my local Team RWB Community here at Fort Hood. Angel (my wife) and I lead trail runs on the majority of Saturdays and Sundays in the area. We've had 19 trail-runners out at one point and have had a blast growing to know more folks around here.

However, I was really pushed into writing this and getting some of these thoughts out of my head by a hill recommendation for a hill workout I was prescribed by my running coach (oh yea, I got one of those recently, she's the reason I'm getting faster). I'm writing this as a way to try to calm my stupid ego and get over the fact that I missed a running workout with only 23 days till the 100 mile race.

My prescribed workout was 6 x 1/4mi hill sprints, 80 minutes total. That 80min would include a warmup and cool-down. I had recently heard about this awesome hill that many of the cross country teams in my area use for hill training. I decided to look it up and from the north side it was a 1/4mi climb, but I wasn't told that the only hill access was from the main highway and the climb is about 4/100 of a mile, not the 1/4mi I needed.

I decided to try to drive around to the other side of the hill and see if I could get access to it. At that point I should've cut my losses, driven back on to Fort Hood, gone to my normal hill, and done my run there, but no, I'm a man, I had to beat this, I was not going to let this hill get the best of me. I wound up spending over an hour just trying to figure out if there was a route that I could drive to get to the base of the hill on the other side of the fence.

I never found that route; I went home empty handed, not accomplishing my run and feeling upset that I was recommended a hill that wasn't hard enough for me. Yes, it may be awesome to so runners and more power to them for getting out and moving and doing their thing, but I had plan, I had a distance to cover and I failed.

lI'm going to take a big breath and let this run go; I already emailed my coach to let her know I didn't get it done to see if she wants me to run on my "off" day tomorrow before this big weekend of running. I also, can look forward to those miles this weekend, I'm prescribed 25 miles on Saturday and 15 on Sunday. Until something else small comes up in my life, that I must write about, please check out some of my previous posts.

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