Sunday, November 30, 2025

hard hills

As expected, a poor day for weather in Sewanee.  37º F., drizzle, thick fog, but at least the wind wasn't strong.  I went to the track first to do a brief warmup then to the steep on Roark's Cove Rd to run a hill set.  

Hoka Rincons on

Stretches, drills

Hills: 

250m ~ 63

200m ~ 48

150m ~ 37

100m ~ 22

Doesn't look like much and these weren't fast but were incredibly exhausting, even though my HR peaked at only 169.   I had never tried a 250m sprint on this hill, and with the last 50m the steepest, I felt like I was carrying a piano in the end.  I started all these pretty fast and by the end, especially the 200m, the lactic was so heavy in my ass it hurt to sit down.  I ran in shorts and a light long sleeve zipper v-neck.  Had light gloves but hands were cold.   All I could think about was getting home and getting in the hot tub.  Which I did and dozed off.  

Reminds me of how something inevitably happens after about 40 sec where the lactic takes hold of the body.  Don't ever feel this in a 100m hill sprint, even after all of the 3 preceding.  Not much pain running 100m hill sprint repeats.

Been really getting control of my diet, and eating more meat, and the konjac rice and pasta again, very low cal and virtually zero carb.   

140.0 lbs after workout.  


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