Tried a new course today. Reason I hadn't tried it yet was basically hill avoidance -- it's got three or four monsters. They were monstrous, all right, but I slogged the thing at 9:30 pace, which I thought was pretty good considering my butt still hurt from Wednesday night's 10. Went up Burnham to FF to 74th, down to St. Ed, all the way up the hill on Rogers, under the freeway to Waldron, down to Gordon, up the hill to Burnham and back home. MMR says it was 177 feet of uphill and 177 of downhill, and two of the uphills were greater than 3% average. That's Heartbreak Hill territory, especially the one on Rogers.
Stopped in front of St. Ed's to wipe my eyes and take my sunglasses off, and I thought I heard someone yelling, but with the traffic noise I couldn't tell what was being yelled or by whom (or at whom), and couldn't see anyone without my glasses. Minute later I heard my phone buzz for a missed call. The call was from Liza, my boss. I guess she was the one yelling at me. She knows I'm training for Boston. I called and left her a message that I'd heard somebody yelling something but couldn't tell what, or by whom. | 