Visiting my mom. Got a quick weightlifting session in on my old weight bench in her garage. doing biceps and triceps and chest. Did that for about 45 minutes. Ran 6.4 miles. A lot of hill running this time very steep hills. Very grueling. Ran down from her place at an elevation of about 2500 ft. to the golf course 3.2 miles away at an elevation of about 1000 feet. Mixed up and down hills but mostly down. turned around and ran it all up hill. A couple of particularly steep inclines were menacing, but I got it hammered out. 1st one was roughly a 400 ft. incline over the length of 1/4th of a mile. 2nd one was about 1100 ft over the length of 1/2 a mile or so. Stopped for about 20 seconds after the first half mile which was a milder incline rate to catch breath and then attacked the big hill. did all of them at about an 8:15/mile pace or so, may have been less. got to the top and had a mostly mild downhill for the last half mile to her place, did that at about a 6:50/mile pace. Finished the run with an average 7:50/mile pace. All in complete sun and about 89 degrees. pretty tough run. But was feeling great after it. And definitely had a lot left in the tank. I think I could have done the whole thing again, though at a slower pace.
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