This morning I dutifully got up and made my way to, and around, Piedmont Park. It's a nice run for Sunday morning because not many people are up and about in the morning, unlike Saturday mornings when you get all kinds of weekend warriors mulling about.
I was pretty happy with my overall speed, especially at the part of the park I call the Middle Earth stairs, just old stone stairs that go up near the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
I looped back by my old place on Argonne Avenue and back to 8th Street where I passed by the high school and through the Midtown strip mall before going back on Virginia.
I used to really hate running up the Virginia Avenue hill, but I like it now that my speed and leg strength is pretty close to racing form. I know these paces don't mean anything but I was hitting 7:13 up it.
I could see my breath coming back when I was running up the hill. I think this is the coldest day (41 degrees) that I've run in a while.
I've seen some posted routes by other people on MapMyRun.com and I'm hoping to just extend my old routes, like my Emory route, for more distance.
Time: 9 a.m.
Temp: 41 degrees
Gear: CFLST (Williams' Walk and Run), SST (Gold Coast), shorts, AP/D1.
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