day 5 part 1 - morning run

waking up @ about 5.30 in the morning during vacation was definitely weird. but yet, that was happening to me the whole time during this time. today, i was awake around the same time, but did not get my body up until around 8.
i wasn't so sure whether my friend wanted to run or not. we didn't really talk about it the nite before, but my friend did mentioned days before. so, finally after confirming, we did run. beforehand, i did get a chance to have a little breakfast. little...? well, at least for me. altho according to my friend it was more than little. it was actually west coast's famous bbq pork bun (cha soa bao); hm.....thinking about it definitely made me want to steal it from my friend's. hahahha.....j/k....
anyways....we ran for about an hour. the plan was to go to a coffee place, but since we got kind of a small detour, we ended up not going to coffee place. it was definitely a nice whether for a run. at least for me. got a chance to do some uphill climb workout, altho as always, i wasn't planning to do. also, i was able to get some speed work.
here comes the interesting part; in the beginning, i was not planning to do some speed work. but somehow, i felt so comfortable and go during the run that at one point i actually kind of forgot that i was running with someone. it was not a sunny day, but yet it was not too cool. kind of wet roads, but not rainy. a little sprinkle and windy to keep me cool, and yet not foggy. it was just nice for me to run. got to enjoy some nice breeze, loads of fresh air, and wide open side bike lane.
at around the mid point, i told my friend that we can either keep going or go back. at first, my friend said to just keep going, but then when i said it was already 5k, then my friend changed the suggestion. so we went back the same route. what interesting to me is my friend was able to kind of keep up. we were not running side by side all the time, but i was impressed that my friend could still keep going and running. some of my other friends would probably already be walking at the mid point. but, this person was able to keep going until the last hill. so, yeach, i was quite impressed that i actually gifted this person.