The cherry blossoms have passed and the lilacs are now in bloom! Beautiful sunny run today. So many birds around. This week running, I have seen four great egrets, a green heron, baby goslings with their Canadian parents, Mallard ducklings with mom, cormorants, and so many red winged blackbirds! I am enjoying the last few runs of my taper! Almost go time!
This week running, I have seen two snakes, one beaver (who scared the stuffing out of me sounding an alarm with its tail! Twice! ), so many birds (FIVE egrets in 200m today) and so many bugs! I enjoy finding ladybugs much more than eating gnats!
Double long runs done! I'm enjoying taper! I found this training block hard mentally (have I run enough, can I run that far, is this enough elevation) but I have gone over my kilometres and altitude for the last 18 months and the last two races and I am just starting to get out of my own way. I love the physicality of running, I love the meditative state of running, but I also benefit a lot from the working on your own internal discourses that you have to do to run far.