Oxygen Deprived

For blogging or much of anything else for that matter. But, fortunately I have been able to get in two killer workouts this week.

The first, a tempo run with some of my fastest mileage ever. The mile splits looked like this...

9:58 - 149
9:24 - 156
8:54 - 174
9:20 - 172
9:36 - 168
6:45 - 172 (.66 mi, 10:11/mi)

With an average pace of 9:32/mi and heart rate of 165.

I've just recently started getting my pace down around a 10 minute mile so to be able to string together that many sub 10min miles in a row has me extremely pumped.

The second, another excellent training run in Garden of the Gods. I should probably start labeling these as hill workouts instead of just as training. Today we went a bit of a different route which gave us the opportunity to try some different hills as well as some of the same ones in a different order. I tried to keep the pace up on the way uphill as well as on the way back down. I'm trying to keep a good stride downhill while attempting to recover from the uphill. The mile splits look something like this...

9:22 - 153
10:01 - 162
9:10 - 159
9:44 - 162
9:24 - 160
8:34 - 160 (.80 mi, 10:41/mi)

With an average pace of 9:42/mi and heart rate of 159.

Once again, I'm very happy with pulling of so many sub 10min miles, especially on these hills. I wish I had the time to put something graphical together representing the elevation or grade of these hills. But I don't, I do however have my total ascent for both workouts, 480 and 748 ft, respectively.