Did my second hill workout of the week. This time, it was bounding instead of springing. I ran about 3.7mi. warmup, and started on the moderate hill, no more than 5%. I counted my strides, and it came to 100 strides in 46-50 sec (Garmin showed 430-450 ft = 130-135m). This was a killer workout. At first, I could do 50-60 strides up the hill before my legs would start faltering, then it became 40 strides, and by my last and 8th repeat, I could only do 25 good powerful strides before I started floating in the lactic sea. My knees refused to go up, the stride length shortened, and my pace would drop sharply. All of that was happening at the same time and came on swiftly after mentioned number of strides. Still, I did all 100 strides each time, although my form was pretty bad by the end, and my legs were numb. I also increased my recovery after 3 repeats from 1min. to about 2min, because I was not recovering enough.
After that lovely exercise, I ran some 2.8mi. cool down. Not only was I trudging at 10min. pace, but my legs were feeling like cotton balls the whole time. Total time 1:12:42. | 