LAST HILLS!

Today Brennan and I officially ended strength training! We have completed our 4 weeks and are ready to take on speed!

So because we didn't want to wait around at practice and such, we met on the brook path at 9:00. It was snowing, so we were both pretty stylish in our hats and ear warmers!

So we warmed up with 15 minutes, and stretched before we hit the hills at Temple. We started out pretty well. There was a lot of snow on the ground, so it was quite "slippy" as Brennan would say! It wasn't too bad running up to the turn, but after that it always started to hurt! But then we decided we could "switch into another gear" once we got to the Eve's house and would lengthen our stride or something...but it seemed to help :) And then we kept that up for 30 minutes, totaling 7 reps on the hill (a few less than last time because it was so slippy). To make up for it, we then did two reps of the smaller hill, basically all out, we FLEW up that thing after the longer repeats, so it felt really good! In total, we spent 36 minutes doing hills.

Then we went to the highschool to see everyone, and ran back home, so I got 23 minutes cool down. So thats a total of about 75 minutes of running, WHEW! But I didn't really feel tired during it! (I definitely feel tired now! My legs feel all tight and such) But I felt really really strong on the cool down. Which I suppose is good because we just finished strength phase!

Morning pulse: 13