Hills for Real

of course i got home late last night, i was planning on doing a 6 miler or some hill and then running this morning (i took off work to get some stuff done) and then bike tonight. however, i put off the workout last night and got to sleep late and didn't get up in time to run. i did run tonight. i got home a little later tonight than i wanted and decided to do a 3 mile, strenuous, hill run instead of a 6 miler. i started out going up a small hill, leveled out for a very short time, up another small hill, down a small hill, down a medium hill, up a medium hill, down a really big hill, then up a really big hill. then i turned around and came back. on my way up the really big hill on the way back my feet were barely moving. i had to be going so slow, but i was giving it all i could. it reminded me of lifting weights on the last set doing the last couple of reps when you have no more strength, only will to lift the weight, but i never stopped running, until i got to the top and walked about 30 seconds to get a drink. so, i walked to drink after the first really big hill at 1.5 miles and then after the second really big hill at 2.0 miles and that was it. about a minute or two total.

here are the splits and hr:

.5= 5.23 155
1.0= 5.21 10.44 164
1.5= 5.35 16.20 168
2.0= 6.25 22.45 163
2.5= 6.04 28.49 166
3.0= 5.10 34.00 168

i am on call tomorrow so i am gonna try to bike a little and run a little on sunday.

thought of the day:"Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture," Anandibai Joshee. good thought. goes with the saying, "necessity is the mother of invention." these thoughts also have lead to laziness, in my mind. through hard work and lots of inventions, we humans have made it too easy on ourselves. i guess that is good, if we hadn't made it easier i wouldn't have time to run and have hobbies. but then i would probably be in better shape if i had to walk everywhere and there was no tv or air conditioning.