Run to the hills

As I am running longer and harder, I am growing to hate the hills. There are just too many of them. Extending my route from 8K to 9K added two more uphill segments! Could some one please come by with a big hill squasher, and flatten them all down? Or, maybe someone could volunteer to be my route planner? I know there are probably places close by that I could run to that would be flat, but the time and gas it would take me to develop the routes I would need (6K, 7K, 8K, 9K, etc) is daunting. Or maybe someone could just give me some really good legs, and a pair of super lungs.

I finally tackled the big giant hill that comes up to my subdivision. It is about 2K of running uphill, which I did at the end of my 8K run. I was just barely moving by the time I hit the top - but I was filled with pride at finally conquering my fear of this hill. The next day, I was running down the same hill ('cause there was no way I was crazy enough to try that again), and there was a man running up the hill. He was running. Up the hill. He looked like he didn't even notice that he had just run up hill for more than a kilometer. He smiled, and mouthed something - I assume it was "Hello", although it could have been "You wish you were as good as me" - that I couldn't hear because I had the music cranked.

I was trying to decide what was the differenct between him and me. Well, aside from the penis, of course. Was it conditioning? Am I lacking some kind of athletic gene? If I keep on the path I am on, and actually go up that hill over and over again, will I be able to act like it's nothing, too? I finally decided it probably is conditioning mostly. As to the rest - I am pretty sure it's attitude. And mine needs an adjustment.

But I still hate them.