I got up to run this morning and I could not gut the wind and rain so I went back to bed! I then came home after work and headed out to Harry's hill to tackle that beast. On the way out I ran into Pat Loss and we chatted for a minute and then I headed out, it felt really good to be out in shorts and just a long sleeve top for a change and the sun was out and the temperature was nice... I felt really good going up Harry's hill, my legs felt pretty strong and they seemed to hold up threw the whole run, my lungs were having a hard time though. After reaching the top of Harry's I headed up towards the mail boxes but just went about half way which was 4 miles and then I turned and headed for home back the same way I came. So a really good hill course, uphill and down hill, and I threw in some marathon pace miles as well. My average pace was 8:17 with my heart rate average at 151 and my total time was 1:06:54 and I'm pretty sure that this is a PR on this course and its a pretty tough course, at least for me it is!!! I also did some core training, push-up and crunches alternating between sets of each. I'm sure tomorrows run will be tough because of the short turn around between runs, but I will take today's effort, I feel really good about todays workout... My 3 marathon pace miles went as follows; 7:53(153), 7:53(142), 7:26(155) I felt like this pace I could hold for a while, very good sign considering my legs were tried from the hill work:-)
See ya tomorrow.
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