Ran up Payson Canyon. Was lucky that Craig showed up. We ran together for the first four miles before he had to turn around.
1 - 8:35 warming up, feeling good
2 - 8:06
3 - 8:11
4 - 8:17
5 - 8:43
.38 - 8:44 pace
Total time up - 45:10, 8:24 pace, much better than two weeks ago (see Aug 2 blog) where ave pace up was 8:54. I looked at each split going up from Aug 2 and I was better today on every leg (9:20, 8:50, 8:17, 8:44, 9:20, something like that - my husband just snatched the gps from my hands).
Once I turned around and headed downhill I didn't push it at all (just under 8 minute pace coming down). I think I will do all downhill Payson run next Thursday, going downhill faster, and switch off between these two workouts for the next month.
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