Hills

Today Nate, Bromka and I ran a hill workout. We decided to do it after work, becuase running hard efforts before 8am often doesn't work very well. We got out the door at about 7 after Nate got back from work. My legs felt suprisingly good. I think I'm just used to my legs feeling tired or asleep... which makes sense considering I do most of my runs before 7am.

Anyway, we headed out Beacon Street to "Summit Ave", which is a very aptly named street. This hill is long, steep, and straight ahead. Perfect for hill workouts. I had google-map-pedometered it before we went, and we thought it would be about 600-700m. We did 5 reps up it, and jogged down for recovery. I did pretty well, considering I beat Nate up each time... and he's in pretty good shape. I ran right around 2:20 for each interval. The last 2 were really tough, as I was pretty much anaerobic for the last minute or so. I think the workout was good... got us used to running uphill, and helped us with our VO2 Max and lactic threshold. Bromka and I will head over here to run this hill at least once more before Boston.

Here's a map of the course. You can just take my word for it that it's 600m straight uphill.
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=46307

After, we cooled down to Mass Ave, and stopped at the Anna's at MIT. Bromka and I ran home with our burritos clutched like mini-footballs. Awesome.

We totalled about 11 or 11.5 on the day.

And, here are some pictures from the half-marathon. The first is Nate (in blue) and I about 3 miles in , and the second is probably somewhere between 9 and 10....