hill repeats...

... are death.

I didn't even want to run.  The Husband was driving me to the trail area, where it is about a mile until it goes uphill - the perfect place to do these repeats.  It was so windy and the rain was pouring down.  It's not cold - it's Hawaii, but I didn't want to go.  He was going to walk The Dog, but he wouldn't be able to in this kind of weather.  I said we could just get coffee and I can try later.  He refused.  He said, 'No.  You are going to run.'  Thank you so much, Husband!  My biggest supporter, willing to sit in the car and wait while I run.

I think today was the first day I did hill repeats 'correctly'.  I think every other time they aren't long enough and I just do them until I am tired and give up.  On my plan was 7 repeats, of about 200-250 meters.  I ended up doing 5.  I am happy with this.  I decided to change it to 5 because I have been out injured for a little while, and this was my first time doing any sort of hills for quite some time.

I started with a mile warm up, then ran the repeats - I walked and jogged back down the hill to my starting place and started running up the hill again.  Then I did about a mile cool down.

When I was running the repeats, I tried to just get up the hill.  I didn't try to run it fast, but I did try to run it.  Wow - my legs hurt.  On the first one I said, how many do I have to do before I can call it a day?  I wanted to end on three, then I said the fourth would be my last repeat.  Then I thought that wouldn't sound good on paper and pushed it to five.  This I am happy with - I think it is a great starting point.  It is just over a kilometer uphill, and I can keep improving on this.  Next time (either next week or the week after) I will try for six, possible seven repeats.

From my Garmin:

Split	Time	Distance	Avg Pace
Summary	38:36.9	3.55	10:53
1	9:40.2	1.00	9:41
2	1:41.9	0.15	11:13
3	2:11.2	0.15	14:35
4	1:41.2	0.15	11:15
5	2:02.5	0.15	13:34
6	1:43.3	0.15	11:29
7	2:00.1	0.15	13:20
8	1:42.5	0.15	11:20
9	2:05.4	0.15	13:56
10	1:42.7	0.15	11:25
11	1:57.4	0.15	13:00
12	10:02.7	1.04	9:36

As much as this run hurt, I feel great now.  I cannot wait to keep pushing myself and see my times improve.