Weekly Monday work out with the Hellgate Road Runners is Hill Loops. 10 times around a .33 mile loop that has a 20% grade on the uphill side. The usual speedsters were all abscent due to the Long Island Marathon the day before, but a new guy had shown up who proved to be way to fast for me. I did maintain second position through the run, several positions closer to first than I have ever been before. The goal with this run was to push myself to run faster before the final lap. I have noticed that I have too much to burn at the end of runs due to not running hard enough in earlier segments. So tonight I started pushing it from the get go. It was beating me down and toward the end I started thinking maybe this will be the run where I push myself to puking. The runners trophy of hard work. I started imagining my fellow Hellgaters gathered around, celebrating my stomach bile and the feat of taking myself past the brink . That Chariots of Fire moment was lost when one team mate started to shoulder her way past me on the downhill segment. I had held on to the second spot for too long and wasn't going to give it. I found another gear and burned down the hill and around for another lap. My stomach turned to ice causing cold gusts of breath to get stuck in my throat. As I turned the final corner heading to my sweet bottle of water I saw that same girl that tried to shoulder past me standing by the start point. Nobody lapped me. Curses! I had run an eleventh lap. Curses because I still had not left enough on the course, until that final lap. The vomit will have to wait for another day.
Hills
10 Laps: 24:46
11 Laps: 26:56
Pace: 7:17 (based on 10 laps)
Splits: 2.25, 2.29, 2.27, 2.28, 2.24, 2.29, 2.29, 2.35, 2.34, 2.21, 2,10 (extra lap)
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