So happy!!!!!!! Finished my last long run of my training cycle for the La Jolla Half Marathon next Sunday. If you aren't familiar with the course for La Jolla...it has a ridiculous hill at mile 5 that is a mile long and an elevation gain of 420...it is pretty nasty. Then a hill at mile 12...uggg!!!
So, with the course in mind, I incorporated a few hill repeats in my longish run. I ran out 4 miles and then back about 2+ miles to a "steepish" (I say that, because NOTHING will compare to Torrey Pines Hill) ahhh! I stopped and stretched after running down the hill and then trucked it up the .14 mile hill. I ran back down, planning on running back up at least 2 more times. Up again, for the 2nd time and my quads were BURNING! Remembering that there was still a pretty large hill on the route back to my car, I only did the hill twice. Good thing I made this decision, because about a mile and a half from my car, I got some tummy troubles :( and had to stop at a porta potty! Tried running again, but the tummy was NOT having it! I had to walk back the rest of the way to my car, for fear of...you know...yup. So I ended up doing only 8.51 miles of my planned 9 to 10. Here are my splits:
Mile 1~ 8:54
Mile 2~ 8:49
Mile 3~ 9:01
Mile 4~ 8:48
Mile 5~ 9:17
.69 miles~ 9:03
First Hill repeat (.14 miles)~ 1min 29sec
Down hill~ 1min 16sec
2nd Hill repeat~ 1 min 23 sec
Next mile~ 9:23
Next mile~ 10:12 (walked a bit due to tummy)
Last .38 miles~ 8:46/min mile avg
So....my toal time was 1:18:16 for 8.51 miles
AVG 9:11 min/mile
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Way to go!!! That is some great times :)
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