Easy run + 8 x 8 sec. hill sprints. 6:48 am, 51-56° F, 48% humidity, winds 2 SSW, sunny. I took it pretty easy again today. My average pace is especially slow because it includes walking down the hill between hill sprints. The pace on my hill sprints was more consistent than it usually is.
I have a standard 4-mile route that starts and ends at my house, but today I wanted it to end at the bottom of my hill sprint hill, which is about 0.2 away from my house. I did my regular route but took a couple of small short cuts. It came pretty close. I was just a little past 4 miles when I got to the bottom of the hill. My hill sprint hill leads from the main trail in the green belt up to my street, so I'm really doing the hill sprints in the green belt. There were a lot of runners and walkers in the green belt when I was doing the hill sprints today. I guess that's a popular place to be around 7:30 on a sunny summer morning. After I finished the hill sprints, I walked home. There was a guy on my street who was watering his lawn with a hose. If I had been running instead of walking at that point, I would have asked him to spray me with the hose. AP: 10:22. Splits: 10:48, 10:00, 9:49, 9:54. Pace on hill sprints: 7:09, 7:01, 7:01, 6:50, 6:48, 7:01, 6:49, 6:47.
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