At practice we went up dry canoyon. Our goal was to make it to the water tank. That uphill gets to you. It seemed to never end, but my mindset was once we got up, we had all downhill. Arianna and Clara were pushing it, which was awesome. Clara dropped, but kept going. Arianna was struggling, so we slowed down. We went up another .15 from the water tank to get to 2.5 which got us to 5 miles. Because it was all downhill, our pace dropped down to an 8:15. Super fun going up that canyon. Core after was hard and short which was nice.
Around 3, I did a nice 4 mile heat run. While my watch loaded, I did a quarter of a mile to round out from yesterday. Then, I went up birch. Sadly, that canyon doesn't have a ton of shade. I pushed it up trying to keep my pace under 8, but the last mile, it went up to an 8:30. Took a break at the second gate, then came back down. Dropped my pace to an 8:02 average. It's really fun running up birch.
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