This was my third time to run Ladera Norte, and its actually getting easier.  I walked once, about 3 minutes into the hill, for a minute (timed), then ran the rest of the way.  Not that I was fast - the remainder took me a solid 5 minutes - but I didn’t walk again.  Maybe in a few weeks I’ll be running the whole thing and I can work on my speed?

This was in the middle of a nice little circuit from my office out on 360.  Its about 1km of trail running between the back door and the street, then a 3 mile circuit that includes Far West (downhill) and Ladera Norte (up), then another kilometer of trail back.  That way the trail serves as my warmup/cooldown, and I’ve got a moderate amount of flat road on either side of the big dip.

And yeah, I haven’t posted in a while.  I did the Cap 10 with a friend, which was nice - I got to run easy while he raced - and I’ve been doing a variety of miscellaneous runs.  Nothing terribly exciting.  I’ll try to get better about at least stubbing them out if I don’t fee like doing a full entry.

I’m considering making this 4 miler a regular event - say, every Tuesday and Thursday at lunch.  But I’m not sure yet.

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