Today I did the freeway overpass workout, or in other words the hill workout. The closest hill of any consequence is a freeway overpass near my house. After about a 3 mile warm up we arrived at the hill and I had in my mind I wanted to do 3 round trips back and forth across this thing. One round trip over an back is just over 1/2 mile. The goal was not to sprint up this thing or go at any kind of faster pace but just to hold a nice steady, strong pace and really work on my downhill form for SGM. The workout went well and I feel like my downhill form is improving. It is still a bit clunky and my feet still slap the ground on occasion but I am trying to learn not to dig my heal into the ground and just let the hill carry me down with a nice mid-foot landing. Weather was warm again today, but what else is new.
Meg and I had a close encounter with two dogs this morning. During our first mile, when you are still waking up, two dogs came running out from the side of a house barking and acting like they were going to eat us. Meg jumped behind me and I stood there like a statue not knowing what to do. Luckily the owner came right out of the garage and was able to call them off and apologized several times at which point the dogs took off running around the neighborhood. I hope she had to spend plenty of time catching them. Dang dogs!!
Time: 51:50 8:38/mile
NB768 336.51 NB768(new) 7.0 Saucony A2 11.9 | 