Big Workout. 8 mile MP tempo, with 10x100m strides at the end. 15 miles total. Today I tried a new loop: the Hyde Park Hill Loop. It starts out on my Logan Loop, then I cross Main by Iggy's, then turn left on 800 N, and take that road to Hyde Park. Then a right onto the main road there, up the hill (a mile long), and then back south on 1600 N, at which point the route merges with my North Logan -USU-Boulevard Loop. So perhaps a better name for this new loop would be the "Logan-Hyde Park Hill-North Logan-USU-Boulevard Loop. But I'll stick with "Hyde Park Hill Loop", because it has a really stinkin' big hill in Hyde Park. Or maybe "Loop of Pain". I thought this route might be easier than my Millville Hill Loop, but it was in fact harder. Warmed up for 4 miles, then started the tempo. | Mile | Split | Terrain
| | 1 | 5:39 | rolling
| | 2 | 5:44 | rolling; more uphill than down
| | 3 | 6:54 | um...BIG uphill.
| | 4 | 5:18 | blissful downhill
| | 5 | 5:47 | rolling; last bit of uphill
| | 6 | 5:28 | net dowhill
| | 7 | 5:36 | flat
| | 8 | 5:41 | mostly down; traffic stops
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It was an okay workout, but not my best. The Hyde Park Hill makes Millville Hill look like a loser. I've ran down this hill many times, back when we would do long runs from Ben's house in North Logan, but never up. I'd rather go down. The last half of the tempo felt pretty good. The last mile was going through USU campus, so I had to slow down through the traffic light on 800 N, and then took the steep paved trail down from campus, which slowed things down too, because it was too steep. But another workout is in the bank. Took a 00:45:00 power nap afterwards. (Elite: 175 miles)
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