Weekend Fitness (1/15-16)

<p><strong>Bob </strong> - 17.5 sounds good enough, all things considered!   And 35 degrees sounds heavenly!</p>
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<p>I'm heading out for 15 miles of hills soon. I started googling to try to find out more about Little Rock's course and everyone is talking about the first 16 miles being hilly.  WTF?  I didn't realize that!  Luckily I've already been doing hill stuff at least once a week, but I'm gonna step up the hill training from here on out.  13 degrees, windchill of -2.  At least the sun is out! </p>

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<p><strong>I'm 100% certain that running in the snow takes a lot more out of you than just running on the pavement.</strong></p>
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<br><br><p>It does.  When I was doing the Low Heart Rate running last winter (or maybe the winter before??) my pace was much slower at the optimal HR than when I ran on clear pavement (still in same temps).  I can't remember the numbers, I have them somewhere on my old blog, but I remember that the numbers were way different (confirming it is a lot more work to run on snow, even packed snow. </p>

<p>Nice run <strong>Tim</strong>!</p>
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<p><strong>Nettie</strong> - sorry I missed seeing you last night.  Hope to see you for beers or a run, or both, soon!</p>
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<p>Saw on twitter that <strong>Baggs</strong> kicked butt in International Falls!  2011 is gonna be his year!</p>
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<p>The hills are gonna be fun, <strong>boB.</strong>  They will make us appreciate the beer and festivities all that much more when we are done!  The thought of them gave me a much-needed kick in the butt.  I blogged about <a href="http://runninfromthelaw.com/2011/01/15/my-wtf-moment/" target="_blank">The Hills</a>.</p>
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