I could still feel my legs from sunday’s run but because this was one of the few sunny days in the year so far, I decided to do a light jog through the forest today anyway. Contrary to that plan, at the end of my planned route is a step hill that has been troubling me for some time and I set my mind on jogging it up 
The first 30 minutes were okay, then my thigh muscles started feeling quite weary. Right before the hill I had planned to jog up. It was an interesting experience forcing myself to keep jogging. Maybe you know this from yourself, you’re already exhausted at the beginning of the chicane and try to get your mind back to the “I think I can” side while your unconscious cleverly tries to stop you by extrapolating how wasted you would have to be after the next difficult section.
Well, now I can proudly say that for the first time in maybe 4 years, I’ve done that hill again. Not at full jogging speed, but it didn’t degenerate into walking. Hugh!
Today’s route was 6.5 km. Time taken: 58 minutes!
Surprisingly, even though I hadn’t completely recovered from Sunday, my average heart rate was only 157 bpm (today’s maximum was 189 bpm). I didn’t feel any effects of having a cold anymore, maybe Sunday’s run killed it off =)
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