Hill work taday.... I sleep long last night, which was very needed!!!! I missed my chance to run this morning. So... in between meetings at work, I stopped by the Rec Ctr and ran my hills on the treadmill... That was a first!! I thought it would hurt to run hills on the treadmill, but found the whole experience to be very enjoyable!!
I started with a 1 mile warm-up at 9:55 pace. Then I ran 5 hills at an 8% grade. The intervals were 400 meters up and 400 meters recovery. The pace on the up-hills were 9:05 to 9:15, and the recoveries were flat at a pace of 9:30 to 9:45. I then ran 2 more miles at interval paces of 7:30 to 9:15. I felt good, and I was soaked. While cleaning my treadmill of my sticky sweat with a cleaner, I notices I soaked the treadmills on each side of me. That was probably why the guy next to me left on my second hill. Whew!!!
Cathy and I swam laps this afternoon at the City pool. We swam 1 mile. I wasn't breathing very well... I never got into the groove. I had to stop every 10 laps to breath for a minute. I did get a 20 lap section in from lap 40 to lap 60. | 