First outdoor run

A few days ago I went for my first outdoor run of the season.  I had been running on a treadmill and the track at the YMCA, but was warned that running outdoors was much more challenging.  I did not find this to be the case.  Running on asphalt is less comfortable than on a treadmill or track, but there is so much more going on.  Treadmills offer nothing to look at except the televisions in front of them, and the indoor track is only slightly more varied.  Outdoors, however, there are birds, trees, creeks, rivers, and fields (I live in an agricultural part of the world).  I usually listen to music when I run indoors, but outdoors I felt no need for it.  So I ran 11.5 km, which took me an hour and a quarter. There were not a lot of hills, so I'll have to find more hills to run on.  The race is in hill country, and I don't want to start the race having neglected hill training.

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