Slept in and took forever to get running. Finally got myself going. 2 miles up the canyon, I was at a decent pace and thought maybe I'll do a tempo run! 200m in, my achilles popped. Stopped to stretch it, then jogged another mile slow. Turned around and went really easy. My stomach started hurting, so I was glad I turned around early. My body was tired, and I haven't gotten a ton of sleep the last few days, so it felt good to slow down. 8:30 average pace for 6 in the morning.
At 9, I was feeling really good (napping helped), so I ran. Went on downstream upper canal. Hit 2 clouds of gnats within 50 meters of each other. The first didn't seem to end. The second got plenty in my eyes. Went to 6th and came back on hillside, where there were less gnats/bugs. I was averaging a 7:49 pace, but my watch ran outta batteries the last mile. This loop was 3.5 miles. When I got home, Garrett wanted to run, so I went with him once I grabbed my stopwatch. It was dark by now, so we were running in total darkness down hillside. Went to 6th, then looped back around the block on our way back. He was only planning to run 2, but wanted to add extra, so we did 3. We did it in 22 minutes, so 7:20 pace. Lol, it was crazy how much he sped up at the end, I couldn't catch him. It was a fun evening to run, and even saw some fireworks. Didn't plan to go this far today, but it caught me up on mileage.
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