I'm Not Quite Over The Hill--Or Am I?

This morning I went up the hill on La Cienega Blvd. to Sunset and back down San Vicente. It is the same hill work that I have done before, just over 5 kilometers total distance. I started out slowly to warm up before attacking the big climb. The last 100 meters or so is just too steep to keep the knees straight so I ran it. That got my hear rate up to the "hard intensity" range, about 166 bpm. Other than that, it was an easy walk.

So how did I do? By the end of the 5K mark my average pace from the start was 7:26 min/km, that's 11:57 min/mile. Funny, that was my marathon goal a few months ago. Not bad for someone who was a couch potato just last year.

Here are the altitude recordings, I'm not quite sure what to make of them yet:

Lap   Time        Lap Time   Altitude Avg of Lap  Ascent  Grade % VAM 
1. A  0:08:16.5   0:08:16.5   4        2           0      0.4       0 
2. A  0:15:41.4   0:07:24.9  28       12          24      2.4     194 
3. A  0:23:17.2   0:07:35.8  60       55          38      3.2     300 
4. A  0:30:07.3   0:06:50.1  26       46           0     -3.4       0 
5. A  0:36:52.5   0:06:45.2  -3        9           0     -2.8       0 
6.    0:42:24.9   0:05:32.4  -6       -3           0     -0.5       0