Dahlia Road Hill Repeats

This morning I got up super early (I work nights until 12 midnight) and made it to the club by 0830 for track workout. Today was hill repeats up Dahlia Road which is near the club. It's between .35 and .4 to the top and is like climbing stairs without the stairs. We started out a little before the top picture and it gets progressively steeper. By the time we got to the curve at the top of the top picture I was doing just faster than a speedwalk with Bridget while Cecilie glided up. Middle picture is looking down from almost the top down to the curve, that's the steepest part.
We did 4 repeats with a slow jog back down. Bridget and I stayed together each time and did from 4:12 to 4:28 each time. Surprisingly the heart rate was high, but not anaerobic. The bottom picture is at the top of the curve looking down.
Then for the real surprise, Cecilie said "do 3.5 now?" Everyone said yes, and off we went around a known loop route for 3.5 miles more. I only had to beg Cecilie to slow down once. Then into the pool where we did 1500, then 300 doing different drills.
Monday I ran with Cecilie, she said she wanted to do 7 miles. We went at a fairly even pace, not fast or slow. She surprised me by taking two small walk breaks to drink water. The first one I stopped my Garmin and forgot to start it up until about .3 miles later. So I don't have a total time, but the Garmin says an 8:55 pace for 6.66 miles. We did a total of 7 with two pretty good hills in there. Then into the pool where we did 4 600's. Plus I did her ab class that night- very hard class.
Tuesday, just 1 hour spin class. It's a 45 minute class, but Cecilie and I stay and spin to make a full hour. Her husband does the class sometimes and was there Tuesday and had saved a place beside her for me- very cool. This time 3 girls stayed and spun with us for the extra 15 minutes.