Hill Repetations - 2 miles easy, 6 x 2 min. uphill @ 10K effort w/jog-back recoveries, 2 miles easy.
Weather starting at about 7:30 am: low 34°F, high 46°F, 20% humidity, wind 12 S.
I thought on Saturday that I didn't make any holes in my gloves when I fell, but I was wrong. I washed the gloves after Saturday's run and this morning discovered one hole in the palm and one hole in the thumb of the left glove. It's too bad because they are my SmartWool glove liners. Maybe I'll try to sew the holes closed. That's what I did with my SmartWool socks when my toe made a hole.
I really felt sluggish when I started out this morning, probably because of my hard run last Saturday. My legs were leaden for the first two miles and then at the end of those two miles I went down the hill that I use for the hill repetitions and at that point I started feeling better. Still running uphill at a decent pace for 2 minutes was really hard. I made it up to the top of the hill in that time, so if I ever want to do longer hill repeats, I'll have to find another hill (no problem there). However, there are no more hill repeats on my current training schedule. In any case, my pace on the hill repeats was 8:56, 9:05, 8:54, 9:10, 8:59, 8:47. According to McMillan, my 10K pace is 8:56, so I was pretty close. I'm sure I went faster on the first minute of the hill repeat than on the second, but that's how it averaged out. I felt a lot better running the two miles home than I did running the two miles to the hill.
Tomorrow schedule says 10 miles, with the last 8 miles hard. That sounds scary to me. If my legs feel anything like they did today, I may delay the start of the hard portion or do away with it all together and run 10 miles easy. We'll see.
I didn't have to go to work today, so it was nice to be able to sleep in and run a little later, but that accounted for the relatively significant change in temperature over the course of my run. | 