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This IS Going to Hurt I'm Sure!

Tonight I have hill work!!

OK so Spans is being nice to me to ease me into the suffering but it still sounds painful!

Warm up
4 sets of 90s uphill
jog back
Cool Down

Bath
and
Relax!

Not going to worry about any gadgets, just me and the watch!

Watch this space!

Wind swept Pixie ....

Tad windy when I got home! Trees kind of bent and lots of leaves blowing about! warm up started off well except the council have decided to bloke an unofficial footparg between 2 roads with a small fence and a line of trees! So I had to hop over the fence! Then I turned the corner and hit a wall of wind! Fortunatly my hill was sheltered! Phew! So I only got wind swept on the warm up and cool down, but it was windy enough to make me cold in my tee and capri legs.

I had worked out that I should do about 0.1m in 90secs and that from the front lip of the bottom speed bump and the bottom of the hill, to the house at the top was 0.12m.

So I used that as my marker!

It took 1.21 -1.22 mins each time so a consistent pace (good!), recovery was 1.58-2.10 mins (depending on traffic - why people want to get into their driveways with their cars I don't know!!)

1m warm up (approx 1m and approx 12mins)

0.5m cool down

1st hill - not bad, maybe I should do and extra 1 or 2 to make up for last week?
2nd hill - maybe an extra 1
3rd hill - 4 sets I believe so 1 to go!
4th hill - phew!

Got home to see the plumber arriving which meant delayed bath meaning cold Pixie as it was blowing a gail outside!

Comments

Leon said…
Yep....

It's gonna hurt....!!!

Good for you though!!!!!!

[settles down to watch said space..]

:o)
5:44 PM, November 03, 2005
Cath Delaney said…
heh.. Pix... Phil said on Tuesday night "I used to like hills before tonight". That's what it does for you tho... makes you work hard dunnnit.. good session I hope. Pee'd it down here today. All day too.
5:54 PM, November 03, 2005
RobW said…
Hills are hard work but excellent, improves your strength and also helps improve your running style as you have to lift your knees higher
9:18 PM, November 03, 2005
RobW said…
Nice one Pixie. Good consistent times. Well done!

Don't be tempted to make up for lost runs by doing extra, as yoda might say - "to the path of injury that leads"
9:02 AM, November 04, 2005
Evil Pixie said…
cheers Rob!
you warmed up yet Caff and Leon??

Hills may better be described as long upward slope but definatly a hill in my book! When in Berkshire my hills were canal bridges and now I live on a hill!
9:53 AM, November 04, 2005
Cath Delaney said…
Well done Pixel - least you got out and did sommat. I says to Phil when I woke up sleepily this morning... "have you been for a run then..?" (cos he said he was going this morning). SO he says "no, not going". I says "why not..?" and he cites the wind and rain and cold etc etc etc as excuses!! Wuss eh!!

:o)
1:16 PM, November 04, 2005
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