Needless to say I ran 3 miles at an 8 min/pace. It was hard to explain why this was tough...I didn't necessarily feel like running today either...and I skipped a strength workout yesterday.
Anyways, I decided after the 3 miles to do 4 uphill runs on a stretch of road that is about 225m...my goal was to atleast feel the paces I want to be able to run. My first one was at at 6:40 pace...(I've run that pace for two miles in a 5k and the wheels fell off after that)...next one 6:11 pace...I probably have not done this pace more then 5 times this past year and maybe just for a sprint near the end of a run....5:54 pace...when I saw this I laughed thinking at one point I could run a mile at this pace...finally a 5:45 pace...not as hard as I would have thought..."words from a delusional runner".
I think I enjoyed this little exercise and wouldn't mind trying it again...I would probalby try to do 8 of them next time and hopefully after a better warm up run. I like the challenge of the uphill and know I need to do more of these types of things to improve speed. So that's my story...sticking to it. Wednesday...couple more days until the weekend.
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