Week 8 - Day 5 - 8 Miles

"Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better." - Juha Väätäinen, Finland

Today's run was for fun. I got all my mileage in for the week but decided that since this coming week we will be at a music festival and I am taking it off, I might as well get one in. There will be tons of dancing and hiking all over the venue so I am pretty sure I will stay in good form. I padded my training with 2 extra weeks so that I could have some flexibility with summer plans.

My brain was funny today. At first I thought I would go 4 miles, easy-peasy, but then I got running and thinking about how long it might be before I hit the trail again and decided I could definitely do 5. As I got close to my turn-around point I thought, well the end of the trail is 3 miles so I might as well go all the way and make it 6. Then I as I got to the end of the trail, I figured 8 would be better and kept running.

I believe I am starting to get really addicted to this running thing...