New muscles?

I think my legs have new muscles. Or my legs were mysteriously replaced with someone else's (which can run 12 miles at an 8:40 pace and feel nothing) overnight. I seriously cannot believe how effortless my run felt today, and was especially not expecting it with small amount of sleep I was running on. 

But yeah... my 12 mile run today was a piece of cake and I find it funny that it was the end-goal of last summer's entire training. 

Awesome things about my run today: 

1. I ran up the mountain, which I haven't done in a long time, so I find it a small feat in itself that I started this long run with a 3-mile uphill. 

2. At the bottom of the mountain there was a group of bagpipers having their own little concert together in the park. 

3. When I got to Parc LaFontaine, there were so many artists and musicians everywhere -- cellists, violinists, french horn players, painters....

4. While running the last mile back to my apartment, I looked up at the top of the mountain and it seemed so far away and I could not believe that I had been up there only 90 minutes before. 

Great run.    :o)