Hill Night!

After a couple nice easy runs following Saturday's race, today I turned up the intensity a bit.  The afternoon started with a 3.5 mile warm up at a 6:59 pace, pretty much a flat down and back on Asbury Road.  Then I met Bill, Rob and Nate at 6pm for a 7.5 mile hill run in which we tackled Loras, West Locust and West 3rd.  We kept at a decent pace but climbing that bluff the third time on mile 10 I was feeling the burn big time. 

It was an awesome run and another new spin on some familiar hills and routes. The combination of the length of West Locust, different pitches of Loras, and the sheer steepness of West 3rd gave this run a particularly nasty flavor :)   I can remember when tackling one of the hills on the bluff would make me lose my lunch, now we zig zag the bluff from 3rd to 32nd, these Tuesday night hill runs have been awesome!

So I topped off the night with my lifting routine which tonight consisted of back, chest and abs, then I cooled down with a 1/2 mile swim in the pool.  As a result I am pretty wiped, I'm going to wrap this up as I have to get to spin class in about 7 hours so I need to get some rest...  another fun and challenging day of training in the books!