8 Mile

I did it. Barely. But I did it.

I went out for eight miles. Took me 2 hours and 2 minutes. Definitely had to walk some, because it turns out when you don't drive the roads you map out to run, you wind up running in to a three mile stretch of hills. I guess I would call them rolling hills, but they were hills nonetheless.

And I did it. Despite angry mist rain, venturing out in unknown territory, and no clue how it was going to go. I did it.

Here's a map of my loop:



It says 9.16 miles, but I include my half mile warm up in all my loops. So the actual "run" portion was 8.6, and I ended up making myself walk the last .2 miles home. I had it in my head that my stretch from where Parker Rd meets 99 to Madrona, was only 2 miles. Yeah, it's definitely closer to three. So my home stretch-no walk part of the run ended up being about 3.6 miles instead of 2. Holy cow, my legs can tell the difference! Good thing I didn't let them do the talking.