Really slow run + 8 x 8-sec. hill sprints. 7:07 am, 62-70° F, 67% humidity, winds calm, partly cloudy. I was really sluggish this morning. Maybe the hot six wore me out more than I thought yesterday. Six normally isn't that hard. I saw 3 or 4 sets of sprinklers in the first mile, but I skipped them because I wasn't really hot yet. Then by the third mile I was really wishing for sprinklers. My wish was granted at the end of the third mile. That was it for sprinklers except that after my run was finished, before I did my stretching, I walked through my next-door neighbor's sprinklers. I didn't lie down in them this time. I saw Barbie again while I was doing the hill sprints, but she walked past the bottom of my hill while I was further up on the hill, so I didn't talk to her this time. Also, she was with a man today. He didn't look much like Ken. Every time I've seen her before she's been alone. I stopped my watch between hill sprints this time. In the past, I've let it run during my walks down the hill between hill sprints. So this made my average pace a little bit higher than it would have been otherwise (but it is still pitifully slow). It also made it easier for me to count the hill sprints as fast miles because I knew that everything over 4 miles was part of a hill sprint. In the past, I've dumped the hill sprints in slow miles because it was too much trouble to add up the distance on them. AP: 10:08. Splits: 11:07, 10:15, 9:52, 9:59. Pace on hill sprints: 7:06, 6:23, 6:54, 6:56, 7:22, 6:22, 6:35, 6:37.
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