hello fitness, nice to see you again

with pretty much no racing this summer...its often hard to tell how im doing. so i gotta look to little signs that things are progressing... one of those signs came last night during my AWC workout (5min hill intervals).

In the past 1-min all out efforts have been lacking in my training... well, Steve put a change to that real quick. so after tuesdays handful of efforts i thought i might die... or at least be too tired to do my wed's AWC work.

well, i started my first one at the base of the hill... feeling good... got to the top at 4:15. huh. it normally takes me about 4:35 to get to that point (driveway at the top)... crap, i went to hard & im gonna pay for it on the next 4 of these!!
so coast down & go up for my next one, pacing myself a little better... again 4:15. hmmm. odd. again. 4:18. wow. finished up all 5 of them, and felt really good.... like i could have done a couple more. 15-20 secs doesnt sound like much... but over the course of 4.5mins... thats a 5% improvement over where i was a few weeks ago. i'll take that.