cottonwood

I have a time goal for my next half too, but I'm not sure Cottonwood is the place to get there. I'm going to try anyway. The course has lots of hills so I think I am going to try doing my longs in Saguaro national park and Sabino Canyon. I need to be going up hills. I am losing weight steadily so that will help. I agree Sandy, it makes a big difference, both in speed and in how it feels to actually run.
I have the nastiest cold ever and I haven't run in over a week. I was thinking I would go this morning and maybe it would help clear stuff out but I hardly slept from coughing and feel like there's an elephant sitting on my chest. So I thought better of it. Maybe tomorrow.