I did a tempo run again in the gym yesterday going up to 7.5 twice and 8.5 twice. A total of 30 mins and 3.0 miles.
Today I decided a long run at noon. I ran from home to torrey pines beach and back. I ran upto the trader joes complex, a distance of 11.5 miles in 2 hrs 3 mins and walked 0.7 miles home to cool down. This is a tough run, the weather was perfect, in the 60s sun was out no wind and great day to run. I maintained a race pace of 10 min/mi for the first half of the run and then came the uphill 7% gradient part that I think I did ok. I ran most of it and walked only once. But by the time I was off it and up to start of the golf course I had spent some energy and had a tough time getting pace back. I just could not find the spark to speed up and ran slower and ended up with 10:45 min/mi time.
I need to crack the hill and figure out what I can do to get my energy level up, maybe some quick energy food, or a different strategy for this dreaded hill that I will face in next months La Jolla half marathon.
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