New Route

This week has started out very interestingly  for me. I decided to go onto google earth and try to find a new route to run. My location can be difficult sometimes because I'm limited in the directions that I can run. Because I live on a big hill I can't run straight up it (or atleast for very long) so I have to find ways to traverse along it and work my way up slowly. I usually like to start my runs up hill so that I can run down on the way back but I decided to find a route that goes downhill first. What I hadn't realized is that if I go in the exact opposite direction that I normally run in the hill actually mellows out quite a bit; enough that I can plan the majority of my run in that area. It's also great because I can run the route backwards because it's not overly steep uphill in either direction, unlike my original route. I've been having a great time running at a very fast pace along this new route, forward and backward.