8 hills
Last night was a heartbreak hill night. 8 times light to light with a moderate recovery down the hill between each repeat. 1:49, 1:49, 1:50, 1:49, 1:46 (thanks mark), 1:46 (my fault), 1:51, 1:44 (blamimg Justin but it was all of us really). The group was Justin, myself, and Mark Coogan. Something about having an olympian in your group makes you want to make sure you don't waste his time. He drives all the way down from NH to workout with our group, so the last thing you want is for him to be sitting around with all his ex-olympian buddies saying "I thought those guys from reebok boston were tough runners, but it turns out they are all soft as cupcakes." Mark and Justin are getting into great shape and it is nice to have a group of three guys. It seems to make it easier when there are 3 rather than just Justin and myself. Hopefully, we can stay together and help each other get into great spring time shape.
Yesterday at lunch it was just a nobscott shake-out that I didn't even time.
This morning was another commute to work day. I have a day crammed with meetings so I ran in, lifted, and then will do a longer run home. This morning I think I took the most direct route into work, white pond to the railroad track bed. Not one hill on the whole route. It took me 35:37 with a last mile in 6:02 because I wanted to see how fast I could make it in running moderately if I ever have to run in and am a touch late. Looks like I could do it in 33 if I had to put the pedal down at max training pace. Don't want to race or tempo in when it is not on schedule. Somewhere between 5.2 and 5.5 miles I would venture to guess. Soon it will be warm enough to ride the bike into work. That will be a good day. 2 sets of lifting and 200 sit-ups (missed abs yesterday because of things have been busy here at work and had to boogie) felt good for the first day back to lifting. Whatever was bothering the lower left half of my back is gone. Lets hope I didn't do anything to make it worse.
That's all I got.