Today was Harry Davis Hill day. I always love this one because it kicks my butt every week. My legs seem like they are strong enough but my lungs have a hard time keeping up with the steep grade which is around 8% to 10%, just brutal. I usually run it around a 10:00 mile and that is usually fast or a good day for me when I can keep it at that pace. I did a warm up mile of 8:22, followed by, 8:29 at the start of mile 3 is at the base of HDH, my split there was 10:04, and then followed by an 8:37. I did 2 miles at Marathon Goal Pace, 7:37, and then 7:26, my 7th mile split was a cool down at 8:22 for a total of 59:06. All in all I felt really well I just wish I could get my lungs to keep up with the faster pace but I am just not there yet I try to do speed work once a week and then hill work as well once a week I don't know if I can handle any more speed work and then recover in time for the next days run. I don't know what the general rule is so if anyone reads this I would like to have your in-put.
I also did 35 minutes of lower body weight training with the bowflex and some core training with that. Tomorrow will be a recovery run and I think I will need it, I had a good workout today.
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