This morning I ran my Providence Hills Loop. I started out easy with the first 3 miles around 7:30 pace. I decided to hit the next mile hard (big hills the whole way) and broke 8:00 which put my HR up at 178. At that point, it is a nice downhill the rest of the way home, so I figured I would keep up the effort and see what happened. (5:58,6:20,6:26,6:19) I was catching the 7:00 guy with a mile left so I pushed it and beat him by 5 seconds a mile. Did an easy .1 cooling off. Not a bad workout for just running by feel.
Total Time: 56:09 (6:55 ave)
Ave HR: 160
Elevation 4500' to 5000' and back to 4500'.
PM: Took son on Bike for an hour ride. Was more work than I was expecting. I will count it as 2 miles even though it was comparable to 4 or 5. We saw horses and cows and lots of dogs. | 