Easy run + 10 x 8 sec. hill sprints. Average pace: 10:38.
Weather: 17°F, 62% humidity, minimal wind, clear sky with a full moon, dry streets/sidewalks for the most part.
When I left the house to drive the kid to seminary, the moon was small and white and high in the sky. A little later, on my run, I watched it set in the west, at which point it appeared yellow and quite large. After that, I watched the sun rise in the east.
I ran the easy part of this run a little slower than I have been lately because I was tired from yesterday's run. But I've been reviewing what Hudson has to say about hill sprints lately, and so when I got to that point I really pushed it on the hill sprints, and then walked back down the hill for recovery between them. And once again, I encountered a bunch of middle-schoolers walking down my hill while I was doing the hill sprints. I guess that's what I get for running on that particular hill at that time in the morning. My paces for the hill sprints were 7:17, 7:36, 7:56, 7:44, 6:33, 7:27, 6:55, 6:35, 5:41, 6:24. Hudson says that the hill sprints should be at maximal effort but very short duration, so that's what I tried to do.
P.S. I'm tired of being cold. | 