Hill Repetitions. 2 miles easy, 6 x 2 min. uphill at 10K effort w/ jog back recoveries, 2 miles easy. Average pace: 10:00. Weather: 60°F, 59% humidity, wind 2 ESE. I thought that I would feel well rested and energetic after my four days off, but not so. Instead, I had lead legs, probably from all the junk I ate on the ship and the pounds I put on. I've really got to institute some discipline in my life now. I started out slowly this morning and did 2.23 miles at 10:34 pace. Then I did the hill repeats. I tried to do them by effort rather than by a specific pace. I looked at my watch for time only, not for pace. As a result, I ran them slower than 10K pace, but maybe it was 10K effort and was what I would do during a bit uphill during a 10K. In any case, my pace on the repeats was 8:43, 8:49, 8:34, 8:32, 8:32, 8:25, 8:15. The last one was definitely harder than the first one, but I pushed it a little harder because it was the last one. The hill repeats did get the cobwebs out of my legs a little bit and I ran the 2.25 mile cooldown slightly faster than the warm up, at 9:53 pace. I didn't have time yesterday to catch up on very many blogs. I'll try to read some more today, but I do need to go to work.
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