The original plan this morning was to do a tempo run in Liberty Park, but having just run there on Saturday, I decided to mix it up. I ran down to Memory Grove and up to the horseshoe at the bottom of City Creek. I decided to do a series of mile repeats along the road between the horseshoe and the Captiol, also known as Gravity Hill ("I found my thrill ... on Gravity Hill ..."). It's more or less flat, slightly downhill in the direction I was running the tempo (north to south).
First mile was conservative as I was still waking up, 5:27. Then I jogged back to the start and ran the second one, feeling much friskier, 5:04. Then I elected to mix it up with a two mile effort. So I ran back two miles easy to 11th Ave and G Street. I turned around and started the two mile run. The first mile has the nice 11th Avenue grade, and then some nice drop to the horseshoe, 5:02. The second mile was out to the Capitol on Gravity Hill, I struggled a little at the horseshoe where there is a tiny little gain in elevation, but managed to finish reasonably strong, 5:17: two miles in 10:19. I jogged back to the horseshoe and decided to run one final mile down Memory Grove: 4:48. It's a nice downhill.
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