The Nike Marathon does have its fair share of hills (this is San Francisco!)  Our run on Saturday Jul 31st at the Stanford Dish was a great way to get a feel for what hills feel like.

The Stanford Dish

Given there was significant elevation gain, I decided to just go with 12 miles again.  This run was TOUGH!!

Let’s start with pace and elevation..

It was a fair slog to start with, and once we had done the dish and headed off down Alpine Rd we were still going uphill.

I went back to intervals for this run, but my average pace was certainly not great.

Methinks I need to get some more hillwork in!