I went out today with the goal of making it "all the way around the loop by myself!" ...which isn't really a good goal. Good intentions, but not the best way to train.
I set out at a smooth slow pace (around 11:30-10:50) and decided, as I ran that I wanted to do the hill twice, one each direction. So, the goal became: all the way around the loop, with the hill twice. Again... good intentions, bad form.
Ran down the hill and back up the "correct" way (with traffic) until I reached the cutoff road, then I turned around and ran back down and up against traffic and took the cutoff road to finish the loop the correct way. I was still running around 11:00-10:30 at this point, but downhill runs became more like 7:00 and 6:40. By the time I finished the second hill loop, I was feeling pretty great, so I ran about 8:30 across the cutoff road. The rest of the run came in closer to 10:00-9:50, as I was feeling good and knew I could keep the pace to the end.
Mind you, this all goes against everything I've learned over the last several months.
Instead of going out with the intention of staying slow and steady (11:30-10:50, like I started) and going the whole way at that pace OR running intervals and kicking my heart rate up periodically, but running less distance, I lolly gagged in the middle. No bueno.
But I got it out of my system, and I learned a lesson. If I'm going to train, I need to actually train. Just running and just swimming and just biking aren't going to cut it. Kind of wishing "Team Emily" wasn't a one-man band.
Oh well.
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