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Hill Workout

August 27, 2015 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
This was a a fantastic workout. Was with the Mataponi, doing 2x Stage Road hill (just before the Wahrani Swamp bridge) and then 3x Rowboat landing hill. The many entries below may be confusing, so here's what it is:
-group warmup
-warmup on road to get to base of hill
-six striders
-hill (with long crest at top)
-jog down hill and little loop at the base
-hill
-recovery jog back to camp (I had to go to the bathroom, so I picked it up on the way back so as not to hold up the group. I only broke off around halfway through, so that's why the pace wasn't sub-7 overall)
-jog down to base of rowboat landing
-hill
-loop around cabins, then jog down to base
-hill
-same recovery route
-hill
-cool-down jog to Jordan lodge, dining hall, and back

Felt decent on the striders, and they definitely set me up nicely for the hills. I felt great, so good in fact that I forgot to listen to Anthony about staying reserved for the first hill. Luckily I had the stamina to keep up the aggressive approach. I really had to go the bathroom after the second hill, so Anthony had me pick up the pace on the way back in order to not delay the group. The positive effect of the bathroom break and the negative effect of a straining run back cancelled out, so I was just as ready for the hills as anyone else was. We went off in pairs of two (to prevent the path from getting too crowded). Because of that, it was a little harder to gauge whether an increasing distance between me and a teammate meant that I was slowing down or that they were. In a big group, it's usually much easier--you have everybody else or comparison, not just two or three people. It looks like my times were pretty consistent, so I guess some people were just feeling great on the last two hills. I'm happy that I managed to stay so consistent with my splits throughout the whole workout, despite feeling like I had burned out after the third hill. Quite a fun, but brutal, shower-stealing workout.