Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

6@ 8:41.  Last mile was 3.5% incline (held speed at 8:41) which was tougher than I thought it would be.  It ended up just being a 185' climb but I predict some soreness from it which is probably a good thing since I've never really run much on hills.  Need to build those muscles..

Started at 6.8mph (8:49) and added 0.2 after each mile with the last at 7.8 (7:41).  Average came out to 8:13.  Changing things up a little (something different every mile) helps me get through the 6 TM miles easier, I think.  Soon I will be up to 7...soon...

The Army guys at the gym (I'm at an Army camp) all seem to like to hop on the TM, sprint until they're red in the face for 10-15 minutes, then get off.  I had like 3 of em use the TM to my right in the 50 or so minutes I was on.  I think they probably like to show the slow Air Force guy how it's done - we have to wear PT clothes that represent our branch so I stick out a bit.

Felt good again today - I definitely run hot and cold a lot lately and never know how I'll feel until a couple miles in.  Maybe it's mental?  Anyway AP was 8:10 today.  Last mile was 7:10 (0.75@8.0mph and the last quarter-mile at 9.5mph).  I figure I'll keep taking advantage of the good days with speed, and just chug slowly through the bad ones instead of planning out specific speed days like I did before (and then forcing things when it clearly wasn't my day).  Maybe things will dampen out a bit after I get a solid base under me.

Guess what, I ran on the treadmill today.  I'm willing to run outside in mid-upper 80s in the morning but I have to be at work too early.  You can't really run here before the sun comes up because nothing is really lighted; it's pitch black and I would definitely fall down a lot considering I'm already a clutz and don't know where I'm going anyway.  The good news is I think I'll be changing jobs in a month or so and could show up a couple hours later, we'll see.

For my run I did 3.5 mile warmup @ 8:39 avg pace.  Then a tempo, 2.5 miles @ 7:12 avg pace.  The tempo was broken down into 1.5 @ 8.0mph;  0.75 @ 8.6mph;  0.25 @ 9.5mph.  The whole run averaged to somewhere around 8:00 pace.  Crunching the numbers, the last mile was 6:48.

ez 6 @ 7mph.

AP was 8:14 for this run.  Started at 7 mph and started increasing it bit by bit after about 3 miles, out of boredom.  Last mile @ 7:30 (which I'll arbitrarily log as "fast") included a quarter-mile with 3% incline.

Another 36-mile week in the bag, so I'll start sprinkling in some 7-milers next week.