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August 18, 2004
Reading, Running, and writing
I finally caught up on blog reading. It took me forever! It didn't help that I only read during commercial breaks during the shot put competition and Iraq soccer game. One disadvantage of being a track coach at a small school is that I coach or at least partially coach all the events. That means that I am drawn in by all the events and must watch them all, record them and try to learn something from each of them. Thankfully, I am still on pseudo summer break so I have time for all of them.
My run this morning went pretty well. I was inspired by all the workouts that I had been reading about and decided to do some hill work. I didn't want to do repeats though so I determined to run a hilly route and run all the hills hard. The first hill was about 2 minutes of difficult plus grade (meaning some hand plants were required). At the top I decide it was a good hill and I figured I could run a 1 mile loop to end up back at the bottom and run it again. The second time I ran faster than the first but had to stop at the top to catch my breath and get my heart rate back down under 180. After that I thought that was enough of that hill and headed onward towards some new ones that weren't so steep. After 2 miles I ran up a 3 minute hill that was steep but didn't require any hand plants. Then I ran to the bottom of Doomsday Hill, which is part of the Bloomsday course. I ran this hill with one eye on the watch because there is a marked mile starting about 1/4th of the way up the hill and decided to top off the hill and finish out the mile for time. I ran 6:15 for the mile, which seems pretty good because I think I ran it in 5:55 during the race last May. I ran the last 1.5 miles home and called it a morning.
Soon I have another run scheduled on the south hill. I figure I'll get about 3-4 more miles. I am going to ride my bike the 4 miles to the start for some bonus exercise.
Posted by at August 18, 2004 4:20 PM