On Friday Steph and I were planning our Saturday long run and we decided that since the weather wasn't looking too crazy and the air was clear we needed to run outside. We've been doing all of our runs on the treadmill and while I'm grateful for the treadmill when its freezing, snowing and dark it doesn't quite compare to running outside with running friends! Josh said they (the Jo's) were running 20 miles in Provo Canyon in the morning so we decided to join them. When I picked Steph up at 5:45 on Saturday morning we decided that we would run 16 since we'd done 20 last week and wanted to be smart and have a cut back week. When we met up with Josh and Heather we told them of our plan and set off on our run. The weather was perfect...40 degrees and just a slight wind. We had to stop and take a layer off then we headed up the canyon. We started hitting some icy spots and were reconsidering our route when 2 familiar fellas came around the corner, it happened to be Mike and Paul, a couple other running friends. They said it was really icy so we decided to head to the Murdock Canal trail with them, and boy did we make the right choice! Mike runs on that trail all the time and it is the perfect place to run!
This is after we climbed a fence and got to run in the snow for a few minutes.
Our photo op when Lil Mama couldn't contain her giggles. Mike, Steph, Me, and Josh
Me running through this cool pipe.
We finally got Steph settled down and took this fine selfie of our group. After this, Josh said we'll need to turn around in 3/4 a mile and at that point Steph and I realized we were in for the long haul and our 16 miles had just turned into 20, its a good thing we packed plenty of water and Skittles! We ended up having an amazing run and I was so grateful for great friends to run with, having a lot of laughs and good chats, and that Steph was feeling her music and sang some good jams for me :) At the end of our run Steph and I realized how sore and tired our legs were and we promised we'd each do a ten minute ice bath when we got home. I'd have to say this was the coldest, most painful ice bath I've ever forced myself to do, but I think it really helped!
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