East Rock Park Run - to the top of the hill

Today I ran to the top of East Rock park. My new Saucony's that I won arrived today too - so I took them out for a spin. This is slowly becoming a favorite run of mine. Very challenging grade but extremely satisfying to get to the top. This weekends race goes up 1/2 of it or so - I did some race paces for short parts of the ascent and descent. Figure I'd push on race day for the ascent - but not TOO hard and save the majority of my energy to crush the descent.

Pictures from todays run (yes I brought my camera along) --> http://bit.ly/9k7oWp

Total Mileage: 5 miles
Total Time: 43:25
Average Pace: 8:41

Splits
8:51
8:54
8:40
8:30
8:28

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