Tried to recruit some people to run my mother of a hill with me today, but only Chad was brave enough to try it out. I thought starting at 6AM we'd have a little daylight by the time we got there...nope. Stink. But, sometimes it is nice to not see what is ahead of you! For the 3/4ish of a mile for the mother of a hill it took me 8:36. SO slow, but dang that hill is nasty. Then I tried to push a little bit of a low 7's pace for the downhill, which seemed about right on the Garmin, but because my mile splits are half uphill half downhill they don't accurately reflect that effort. Then at the bottom of the Cove, we went back for more and did the hill loop one more time. I actually finished it in 8:33. Now, this is kind of guessing from the garmin data, so I can't be 100% sure it was faster, but at least it was approximately the same effort. Which for the second loop, I'll take! Finished pushing the downhill again and then got to just cruise on home, with just a little extra loop to finish at 7 miles. AP: 8:44 splits: 8:34, 10:44, 8:04, 8:14, 10:04, 7:40, 7:45 Grabbed a short nap before getting lunches made and kids out the door, then loaded up Adam on the bike and went to the rec center. I did 40 min on the bike, then my PT strengthening exercises: Band walk, big/little toe calf raises, lunges, skull crushers (for the flabby arms), one legged weighted bridge lifts. Grabbed Adam from the nursery then took him with me while I sat on the machines to stretch. Then we rode home. I had to break the gloves out this morning...l/s shirts, now this? sigh, I don't like cold :(
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