Similar to Saturday, because of the holiday weekend I didn't have
anyone to run with and no real plans. I finally settled on running the
water tank road and ended up leaving at about 7:00am. It took me
most of the mile from home to the base of the water tank road to loosen
up. I decided to push the series of five hills pretty hard, focusing on
keeping my legs turning over at around the 180/min rate I've mentioned in
recent blogs. I felt pretty strong all the way to the top and ran the 1.42 miles uphill in 15:55 (11:15/mi). I feel good whenever I can do it under 17 minutes, so today was a good effort.
Rather than coming back down the hill like we normally do, I decided to drop down the trail that eventually leads down to the mouth of Provo Canyon. I've never been down this way before, and took a couple of wrong turns, but eventually worked my way down to the new homes just east of the golf course. I stopped a couple of times to enjoy the view. I couldn't enjoy it while I was running because I had to watch my footing. After coming off the hillside, I ran a little over 1.5 miles at an easy pace, around 8:55/mi. At 1200N/800E I decided to step up the pace and averaged 7:33/mi for the last 1.5 miles home. It was very warm this morning, and I was hot when I finished, but otherwise felt pretty good.
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