This week I’m running Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday, and today I was running solo so I headed South to Rollingwood for a good, but different, hill workout.  This course is, I think, a bit harder than the one I have been doing, but its also a lot more rolling.  It was fun to just get out there again to “run how I feel.”  I tried to concentrate on my form and its still weak, but I think that its improving as well.

This course is challenging because there are some pretty good sized hills, and the last rise of 80 feet or so comes in the final half mile.  It got my HR up there, that’s for sure, but nothing like running a month ago did.  I just may be getting my act together.

Its interesting to compare it to last week’s hill course. The first mile today was 9:54 with 107 feet of climb, compared to 10:06 with 86 feet last time. Mile two was easier, but the same speed, a 9:30 pace with 69 feet of climb instead of 105. Mile three, however, was 9:46 with 147 feet compared to 9:35 with 71 - and if you take out the fast finish last week (none today), the overall pace is probably the same. Also, I felt a lot more comfortable today, even though I was pushing up the hills pretty solidly.

Anyway, that’s 3 miles today.  I’ll do another 3 on Wednesday evening, maybe fartlek a little, then 4 more on Saturday; I’m thinking about running Exposition but it may depend on what the other running folk are doing.  Running 2 miles out with a long run group and then heading back is a lot of fun, even if it does remind me of what I’ve been missing.

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