Easy run + 8 x 8 sec. hill sprints. 6:49 am, 75° F, 27% humidity, wind 5 SW, mostly cloudy. I got up earlier this morning than I did yesterday, but didn't make it out the door any earlier. I dawdled more this morning. I just ran my regular 4-mile loop and then did hill sprints. I got a good run through some sprinklers during the third mile and they got my lower half pretty wet. Then I worried about chafing, but I think I'm okay. Usually when I'm doing hill sprints, I run to the bottom of the hill and then do the first hill sprint and then walk down the hill between hill sprints after that. The result is I do a little walking before each hill sprint except the first, and the first one tends to be slower than the rest. So today I stopped as soon as I got to 4 miles, which was at the top of the hill sprint hill, and walked down the hill before starting the first hill sprint. As a result, my first hill sprint was actually one of my fastest. Barbie walked past the bottom of my hill sprint hill just as I was walking down ready to start the 7th hill sprint. We said "hi" to each other. I believe this is the first time I've spoken to her. I noticed that she was wearing a Garmin. This woman is such a twig. She probably weighs 90 pounds dripping wet and half of the weight is her hair. AP: 10:02. Splits: 10:45, 9:50, 9:28, 9:27. Pace on hill sprints: 6:32, 6:46, 6:40, 7:01, 6:42, 6:46, 6:48, 6:29.
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