05.24.08

Are the hills alive?

Posted in Andy's living testimonial at 8:57 am by Andy

We’re getting ready this morning to head down to a hilly portion of Ohio (read: not Columbus). We’ll be visiting some family over the long weekend, and I decided that it would be a good time to get in a little run.

I did some looking at some of the courses I usually run, and the elevation profiles associated with them. The final numbers usually look something like this: 8 ft gain / 8 ft loss. Over five or six miles. Pretty rough, huh?

I mapped out the route I’m going to run later today. The elevation profile looks nothing like the flatlined monitor I’m used to viewing. This run? 633 ft gain / 633 ft loss. Over 4.85 miles.

This is going to be awesome.

I haven’t run since Monday, if you even count that (I do). And I haven’t run hills of any kind since last September. So today is going to be an educational experience. I’m going to take it slowly, and not try to do anything than be strong the whole way through. I’m expecting it to be a hard effort, but fun.

Are there flying monkeys in Southeastern Ohio?

Update: There were no flying monkeys yesterday, but I did cut my run a bit short.  My right knee was bothering me on the way up the hill, so I decided to cut about 1.5 miles out of the run and just do one major uphill and downhill.  Up the hill (1.67 miles) was done in 23 minutes, which works out to a 13:47 pace.  This was one long hill.  Damn that hurt.  Down the hill was done in 11 minutes which works out to a 6:36 pace.  There were sections of that where gravity was doing 95% of the work and I was just making sure I didn’t face plant on the asphalt.  It was slightly scary.

Today, I don’t feel terrible at all, but I can still feel a little residual soreness from the run yesterday and my workout on Friday.

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