Hill repeats on 23rd East. I jogged over and measured the hill as part of my warmup, and it turns out to be a little longer than 1/4 mile, so I set the Garmin for 1/4-mile intervals with 1/4-mile rest and went for it, doing 8 repeats. I jogged back down between each repeat as my rest interval. My average pace ranged from 6:40/mi (the first one) to 5:50/mi (the last one), with most of them being in the 6:10-6:15 range. I clearly have work to do in this area, since in my last St. George race in '09, I feel like I lost hold of my goal on the uphill sections (beginning with mile 2 and then especially from Veyo to Diamond Valley). For my first hill workout in well over a year, though, I'm reasonably pleased. |