94 degrees. 6 pm. Tribal hill workout. 1.36 warm-up slow. Steady up and down the hill at good aerobic effort--came out to 5.74 miles at 7:52 pace and I was hurting pretty good at the end. I lost count but I believe we went up that hill 12 times, give or take one. I stayed with Eddy until the last trip up the hill when he charged and dropped me like a hot potato. When we were coming back down I kicked and came back up on him so he had to kick it into gear fast and finished about a second ahead of me. Good times and a good sprint at the end. 1.36 mile cool down, by now it had cooled to 89 refreshing degrees. We paused 3 times during the hill repeats to quickly swig some water, and stopped at the water fountain while cooling down on the way back. I did something I have never in all my 31.5 years have ever ever done, and ditched my shirt, running in a sportsbra and shorts. Desperate times call for desperate measures and I needed some breeze on my torso to help cool off. Good thing my fellow tribe member Wendy also ditched the shirt for the first time, so we broke it in together. Turns out it was no big deal. I'm over it now and will probably run shirtless more often. | 