Trying to improve my running

Average was 9 min miles. I didn't want to hurt my knee, which was still a little sore from football on Thanksgiving.

Tried to speed things up a bit today. Two of the miles were faster than 9 min/mile. The middle mile was at 9:09.

Not much time today. I decided to do hill work. I ran the hill by my house that is a bout a 9% grade again. It is the hill on twin peaks road going into aura valley if anyone reads this that knows about Tucson. The hill is about 0.2 miles and I did it in 50 seconds, I think. Figuring it out that gives me just shy of a 5 min mile and that doesn't seem right. I need better GPS. Oh well I tryed to sprint the hills.

I seem to remember thinking about this time that I was having a hard time breaking through 9 min/mile with the barefoot shoes. Today it was  9'02",  9'23",  8'53".

Changed into the tennis shoes today and ran up the steep hill by sombrero peak. I did that relatively easy especially compared to how I felt running it back on Oct 15. The time wasn't great I think partly because going down there where a ton of loose rocks and I had to slow down. 34:51 min Splits were 8:36, 11:02, and 10:58. The big hill was in the second mile.