I conquered the Mexican Mountain Goat today! I feel good about it, although my legs may be complaining tomrrow. After a leg workout yesterday in class and not much sleep last night, I was doubting myself. However, I knew I could do it...I just need to do it! I got a good warm up on the elliptical 20 min @ L12 - 2.0 miles. Then I hit the TM... I knew it wasn't going to be pretty when my 'normal' 8:34 I was planning on maintaining throughout the run was feeling hard at 0 incline during the one warm up mile, so I bumped the speed down to 8:57 and then started up: 2 min @ 2% incline, 3%, 4%, 5%, 6% - with a 2 min rest @ "flat" between each increase throughout the workout.
1 min @ 7%, 8%, 9% ---oh heaven help me!!!
I did the hard part, now I get to come down, but I was running out of time (daycare - pphhbbttt!). So I did a bit of a skip down: 1 min @ 9%, 7%, 2 min @ 5% ---then, the day care lady came out, REALLY?!? Honestly though, I'd never been happier to change a diaper. I was exhausted! Started back up where I'd left off and finished up: 3 min @ 3% and 4 min @ 2%, then I had a few minutes to run it out and cool down. After a couple minutes the 8:57 pace I'd kept steady the whole time finally felt easy (of course it was 'flat'), so I bumped it up a little bit the last 2 min and finished the last 30 seconds at 7:30mm. Honestly, that was SO much easier for me than those hills! I will conquer hills! This workout left me feeling so proud of myself for getting it done, that I think I may just have to put it into the regular routine! Total of 6.75 miles and an AP of 8:53 for my first Mexican Mountain Goat!
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