School to Summit

Jeremy and I hit Bradbury today to tackle some hills.  His plan was to run up easy and down hard, mine was to run up at a consistent pace and try to get in a bunch of repeats.  We decided to run up the hill by the elementary school since it's a fairly long climb and you can continue to the summit also.  It felt like spring and we both commented on how it felt like March or April instead of mid-January.  At the top of Lunchbreak (named by Jeremy for 1) it's near the school, so lunch break 2) it's kind of like Heartbreak Hill and 3) Jamie lost his lunch running that hill) which is about .5 miles up, we decided to keep going to the Summit, about .3 miles further.  We were talking on the way up and of course I wasn't paying attention to exactly where we were going, so on the way down when Jeremy took off on his speedwork part, I (are you sitting down?) made a wrong turn onto South Ridge and then ended up at the lower parking lot, so I just made my way back up and met Jeremy at the summit.  That trip down, he showed me where the turnoff were that I missed.  Of course, my next trip back up and down I still started down South Ridge, but then realized I was wrong and found my way down correctly.  One good thing is that I now know the route (without snowcover).  It was a great workout and next time I'll work the hills a little harder.  This was a good baseline for me to get used to a comfortable "hill pace" climb so I can have a better sense of when I can push it more and when I need to back off.  All in all, I got in about 6.2 miles.  School to summit is definitely a great hill training route.