AM: (9 miles, 1:19:20). 21:34wu/30:53cd. 8 x hill repeats up medium (6-8% grade) hill. Time up the hill was 75"-80". A lot tougher than it looks on paper. I really wanted to find a hill that I could do 90" + up, but the longer hills are a little too steep for this, and the lower grade hills are more "rolling" than straight uphill. Overall, it was a good workout so I am sure it was close enough ;-). Funniest thing was that I was sort of walk-jogging back down the hill, breathing hard and feeling sick, and one of my co-workers pulled up next to me, "Bonnie, this is Denise, are you ok??" ha ha ha ... "well Denise, it depends on what you mean by ok..." ;-). How sweet was that of her though? She is an ironman triathlete, she doesn't do hill repeats, but she works out about 12 hours/week and has a lap pool in her backyard! PM: easy 4. Happy Thursday bloggers! It is indeed a good Thursday as I just found out one of my favorite running blogs is back up (Ian Dobson and Julia Lucas)!! I also found out yesterday that Lauren Fleshman has been in Phoenix for over a month getting "fixed" by our ART guy John-the-miracleman, how cool. She drove out in her VW van went straight to John's house, and decided right then and there that she was going to stay to get fixed. She has been crashing with friends all over town. It is pretty inspirational to see what sacrifices elite runners are willing to make to get to the top.
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