November 16 (69 miles/week)

AM: 15 miles moderate, strides

PM: 60 min. Yoga

I met Billy, Klim and Bain at Buddy Attick lake for a run through the Beltsville USDA roads. We picked up the pace in the last 20-30 minutes, fighting both hills and a ridiculous headwind. At one point climbing a shorter, steeper incline, the a gust of wind picked up so suddenly that I unexpectedly found myself going absolutely all-out for about 10 seconds without consciously increasing my speed, but I had to drive that hard just to get up the hill and fight through it, or I might have literally started running backwards.

Later on, I went back to yoga with Valerie, though the session wasn't quite as intense as last week.