Back in the Garage

OBJECTIVE
Dynamic Stretching
2 mi. warm-up @ 8:37-9:47
6x45 sec. hill repetitions @ 5:50 w/2 min. active recoveries
2 mi. cool-down @ 8:37-9:47

ACHIEVED
dynamic stretch
2.12 mi. WU
7x45 sec. hill repetitions @ ~5:50 w/~2 min. active recoveries
2.07 mi. CD

total time = 59:42
total distance = ~6.02 (???) (not sure the GPS registered correctly while in parking garage)

5:27 AM 43° 85% 0 mph

For today's hill repeats, I drove to the Y. It was a cool morning so I broke out the beanie and gloves for the first time this season. I did two loops of the soccer fields to warm up. This was a little eerie given how dark it was running along the treeline. From there, I made my way over to the Chasewood parking garage. We don't have many options for hill running here so this is one of the alternatives I've conjured for myself. It's not perfect but it's better than nothing. The Chasewood garage is six stories high and if I get there early enough there's no traffic in the garage.

I hammered out my 45 second blasters. They actually felt surprisingly easy today. I lost track of how many I had done and ended up doing 7 instead of the scheduled 6. I would go up hard for 45 seconds then come down real easy for 120 seconds. Midway through I was surprised to see a couple other runners coming up while I was going down. It was Susan Cline and a friend. She was the one who told me about the Chasewood garage about a year ago.

I cooled down back to the Y and unwound with two more laps of the soccer fields. Overall, I felt pretty good today.

Once I uploaded my Garmin back at the house, I was disappointed, but not surprised, to see that there apparently wasn't good reception while I was in the garage. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. After all, I was inside I concrete building .... The result being I'm not too certain of my splits. However, it seems the closer I got to the top of the garage the better the reception was. If those splits were accurate (questionable), I easily hit all of my repeats at the prescribed 5:50 pace.

PRE RUN
apple juice

POST RUN
SlimFast
Later, water, multivitamin & oatmeal w/almonds, flax, brown sugar & 1% milk