Slow but long

It was a challenge just to get in the workout today. I knew there would be days like this. Days where that I just have to make time for it. My biggest problem is sleep. I've got to get my sleep patterns under control. I needed to do today's workout yesterday, but I was traveling home yesterday, so that didn't happen. I didn't sleep well enough or long enough last night, so today's workout was very difficult. And I forgot to bring my iPod, so I didn't have a good way to get mile splits. And if I sat here and thought longer, I'd come up with more excuses.

I ran the UAH spring road race 5k course, then about a mile over to Hillmont, did hill repeats there, back to UAH, and ran the 5k course again. Counting a very abbreviated warm-up, cool-down, and the downhill recovery of the hill repeats, I ran about 11 miles total.

• 1st 5k loop - 25:23 (eww, that's slowwww!, about an 8:11 pace)
• The almost 1 mile over to Hillmont was about 9 minutes (of course I had to stop for Jordan Lane traffic)

Then I did 4 long hills and 3 short steep hills.

1. 1:29
2. 1:36
3. 1:32
4. 1:41

1. 0:45
2. 0:37
3. 0:36

• The almost one mile back was in 7:23, even with a stop for Jordan Lane traffic. Better.
  
• The last 5k was 25:32. I really wanted to beat my first 5k loop, but the hills just took too much out of me. When I finished, I was really surprised that it was that slow.