I drove out to the university campus on Sunday morning for my run. It's on a hill while Palmerston North City is pretty much flat. It was a bit of a chilly morning, but another sunny day so it wasn't too difficult to get out of bed.
I lived on campus for a year way back in the mid-ninties, so I'm pretty familiar with all the trails. I think there was once an attempt by my friends and I to run around the ring road at some very late hour of the night - I wasn't unfit, as I didn't have a car and walked everywhere, but I certainly didn't manage to run much of it at all (that I remember anyway, it was just silly uni student antics).
I didn't want to either start the run on the steep section, or run down it - don't think my knees are ready for that yet, so I started up the gentle slope up University Ave. It was really nice, the sun was warm but the air was crisp and cold. I was glad for the $9 polyprop gloves I'd picked up the day before. I ran right around till I got back to the steep hill, then turned back and ran the other way.
I didn't have anything left for a final sprint in the last minute or two, but feel like I got a very different workout than on my usual flat circuits.
It was about 4.5km, avg pace of 7.49 min/km and I ran for about 35min (the timer says 34.33 but I forgot to start it when I started running)
And today my butt hurts when I walk. Well, really my upper thighs, but that's close enough to complain that my butt hurts.
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