1400 feet

Mostly in hill repeats this morning. PILE IT ON, yeah. Piling it on lately. Got a 1-1, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 4-2, 4-2, 4-2, interval session in on Saturday on the trainer while the youngest watched Tinker Bell before her Ballet class. Then got the race in on sunday, followed it up with this morning's 10 repeats up the squantum club access road. halfway up the road is a parking lot for the Hospital staff (a psyc kind, not ER kind), well cars were streaming down, and the shuttle bus was making as many trips as I was, as frequently as I was and of the 20 or so cars I saw come down and park during my repeats, two TWO people made the walk up the hill. Everyone else hopped in the shuttle for the 45 second ride up the hill.

Unbelievable. I did a nice alternating big ring little ring up this short climb 10 times - finished off sprinting the last two in the big ring. Started to feel a touch of fatigue with the last one. Bag on and all that gave a bit of extra nuisance mid climb and added to my overall Mass, but hey - mid commute I'm not ditching my stuff. Besides it helps add to a bit of leg stress, no?

The 4-4 stuff was supposed to be 4 as hard as could be sustained and then 4 recovery, but after the first one i got 1/2 through the recovery track or less and skipped to the next song and got into the intensity because my HR was already 'recovered.'

The race did take a bit out of me, it was good to be that deep in the red for 35 minutes.

I wish the weather was going to be better, but none the less I've managed to put a kink in a longer ride in the AM plan for tomorrow, should still be able to eek out a few repeats on some longer and steeper hills than Squantum though. No hillside/pukeside repeats tho. Heck maybe I just have to do trainer stuff and get some 20-40s in - will have to dig through the iPod to see if I still have that crappy mp3 I hatcheted together a while back. I'm sort of surprising myself lately. I'm finding far more reserves and tolerance for the intensity than in the past. Good sign? I hope so. Gotta be positive.

the weight isn't coming down but hopefully this strength work will make up for being Clydesdale weight - at least make up a little for it.

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