Thursday, August 12, 2010

Hill Repeats, I Hate You

Today my tiny little boot camp trainer (aka my friend Penny) kept us right on schedule - hill repeat Thursday. We met a little earlier today (5:45 am) to be sure we had enough time to get it all in. I pull up to see Penny there, but no Gina. Hmmm, well, Gina is always a few minutes behind us so we didn't think much of it - until she was 5 minutes late. She's never that late. Penny called her .... and she was sitting waiting for the COP to give her a ticket. ooops. Gina likes to go fast .... and not just running :)

Welp, 6 times up and down that sucker. It was hard and I hated just about every part of it. Except going down of course. One of the best things about having friends to run with is the accountability. I would NEVER do this kind of training without the girls holding me to it. Hill repeats, speed work at the track - yeah, I would never do those things.

Each time up, we put one of these one the sidewalk to remind ourselves how many times we tortured ourselves today!Oh and we saw a little snake. eeeek!

On a non-running note, I enrolled my kiddo today for school. Where did our summer go? I look forward to school starting, but I'm always just a bit sad to see the pools close. I feel the need to fit one more thing in before school starts. What's something fun we should do?!

A cool thing - I have a giveaway coming soon! Yippee!

8 comments:

  1. Way to push yourself on that hill! I hate hill workouts too!

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  2. Good job getting it done - I pretty much never do hill work!

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  3. Blah, that doesn't look fun at all. Great job at getting it done.

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  4. I love doing hills/long runs with friends, they keep my butt moving!!

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  5. I wish I had friends to hold me accountable for hill repeats! I hate the hills too!

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  6. Say it how it is sista! ;)

    Love it!

    Way to go!!

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  7. Whoo hoo! Congratulations on the hill work. Don't you hate how you can never fully capture how brutal a hill is in pictures? I am always like 'oh this is a good angle' and then I go home and look at the picture and it looks all innocent.

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  8. Great job on those hills! It's all so much more fun with friends :)

    Enjoy the rest of your summer!

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