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[which_chick]

2.4 up hill. Have sore throat, dry cough, possibly slight fever. Road slushy.
40 min

It sounds like all the time I am making excuses for how slow I am. :(

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[sara-merry99.livejournal.com]

I'm really impressed that you're doing all this running at all. Is there a reason you need to be fast(er) as well as, you know, *doing it*?

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I walk 4 mph easily on level ground and good footing. Today's effort, which included actual running over part of the course, was a whopping 3.6 mph. *sigh* It was also not a particularly challenging cardio effort but then I felt like crap and was not in the mood to work all that hard.

I have signed up for a half-marathon at the end of March. (Something to do. Seemed like a good idea at the time.) I'd like to finish that with a pace between 4 and 5 mph.

So's to avoid upsetting "real" runners, who are a lot faster than I am, I entered an off-road function that welcomes runners and hikers on the website and that had the bottom 1/3 of last year's pack finishing at a pace of 15 min/mile or slower. The very slowest finishers were around 19 min/mile.

I am pretty optimistic that I've picked an appropriate event. Mountains are involved, which is why I try to do the hill 3x a week.

This is my hill:

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/which_chick/5381728003/)

My house is on the blue line right above the LL in "Valley-Hi" and I walk up the hill (follow the blue line leftward)to the top of the ridge. At the sharp turn on the top of the ridge, I just turn around and go back down again. (The complete route depicted is an 8 mile trek for a long-mileage weekend outing and I damn sure don't do that every day.)

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

If anyone else is interested, the t-r-s four mile out-n-back is from right above the ll in "valley" to the right, along the lake, and around the big curve to the little dimple where the blue line hits I-76 near the lower right hand corner of the map. And then back down again. It's also uphill on the way out but does not count as "hill work" because it's kind of a lame grade.