Suicide run

So I was kind of ticked off about my overall time on Monday (52:47), so I decided I'd run the same seven mile course today as a tempo run. I got up at 7:30 a.m. to do it. The original plan was to try to break 7 minutes per mile.

Then I re-realized that this is an incredibly difficult seven mile course. I ended up finishing in 51:30 (7:21 ppm) after basically limping back the last 3.5 miles. The first 3.5 was 24:02 (6:52 ppm).

The first half mile back is straight uphill and that was an absolute dagger. I was basically out of commission after that. There's one downhill on the way back and then the last 2.5 miles is basically uphill. That one downhill is an incredibly steep, all-you-can-do-to-not-just-walk and very long uphill on the way out and that is the first dagger of this run. On the way back it is so steep that it actually hurts more than helps you.

This is only my third run of 7 miles or more since the half-marathon, and all three of those runs have come in the last five days. I simply don't have the base right now to recover from the hills during the run. Also I can never do these runs after just waking up.