Well I was a bit disappointed with today's run, but maybe I should not be. Just to give you a little background of my neighborhood. I live in El Dorado Hills, an area east of Sacramento and what is considered the foothills of the sierras. My house is at the top of one of the hills in EDH, ~ 1200 ft. Every direction out of my house there is a hill, so I used Google Earth to map my elevation changes on yesterdays run.
My house is @ 1188ft officially,
My house is @ 1188ft officially,
after making a left out of my house you run up the hill to about 1222 @ 0.2 mile mark, then you exit the community out to the main road and run down a hill to about 1100 ft. Then it remains pretty stable till about 1.5 miles when you drop to 820 ft. pretty quickly, ( not great on the shin splints) that is the low point of this run. @ about the 2.5 mile mark the climb back to my house starts pretty quickly from 820 ft to 1010 ft, I would say all in about 0.5 miles. so that is almost a 200 ft climb in less than 0.5 miles @ 2.5 miles into this particular run, is pretty tough on me, not sure how it rates in term of hills. At least it provides excellent hill training.
In the end I finished my 4.5 mile run @ a 9.10 pace which is higher than what I would like to be running. Saturday is the 10 mile run if the weather clears up.
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