"I am hills" - 12 miler

I know, I'm ridiculous, but I was wide awake 15 minutes before my alarm was supposed to wake me at 4:20am. Why? We got a preview of today's route, and it had hills.
I love hills. I am hills. So I had no problems getting out of bed today. (It also might have something to do with not being able to stay awake past 8:15pm last night.)

Regardless, I ran the 12 mile flavor, of which the 5 middle miles were hills. We ran a slower more palatable pace than Tuesday heading out to the hills, maybe a 7:45-7:30, then I attacked the hills. Almost everyone followed suit and stayed quite close which was cool. Half was through the hills Ken stated that his GPS was saying we were at a 7:15 pace overall, meaning we must have had several hill miles at close to or under 7 min/mile to lower it that much. I loved every minute of those 5 hilly miles.

I slowed down the pace to a more comfortable 7:50-8 min/mile on the return trip with Kristen.

Bad news of the day is that I can't seem to locate my headlamp. I would have liked to have had it today because we're not familiar with the roads in the neighborhood and it's pitch dark back there. Last thing I need it a twisted ankle. I'll shake the house out one more time in hopes of locating it.

I'm REALLY craving some chips and queso, but my self-imposed budget is a little tight so I'll just have to eat cheese and cheetos instead of going out to lunch.