8.92 miles

Another Sunday morning beach run. I ran north this time to change things up a bit. Still struggling with the first three miles. I'm not sure there's a solution for that. Maybe it's the same for everyone? I guess it's hard on your body to go from sitting around to suddenly running...I just wish it wouldn't take 20+ minutes to do so. I ran an 8:30 min/mi pace today somehow. I refuse to look at my pace while I'm running because it's just not that important to me. It's kind of a nice surprise to see that I'm running at a decent pace though.

I'm still struggling a little bit with the big hill that comes at the end of the run. I'm able to run up the entire thing now, but I slow down a lot. Big Sur involves a 2 mile long hill at a 5% grade so I'm trying to get ready to endure that. Baby steps.