Never give up.

Today was an interesting day. I started out running at a nice easy pace and then my shin started bothering me. So when I was at my first mile I decided to stop and wrap my shin and guess what that helped. So I went back to running and decided to test my heart rate. I usually like to keep my heart rate around 150 bpm. So as I am increasing my speed I notice that my heart is also rising with the speed of the machine.  So I then decided to take a drink of water, and then guess what happened next? My heart rate went down. So I increased my speed again and my heart rate started to go up, then I took another drink. And as I am running it came to me, it was like the light bulb turned on. And this is what I came up with. As my heart rate goes up my body starts to dehydrate or as my wife says “starts to stress.” So when I was running I would drink some water which would help me to keep my heart rate around 150 bpm which would stop my body from stressing out. So I was able to run a 7:57 pace and keep my heart rate around 150 because I was drinking water.  So let me jump back for a minute and talk about the past for a minute. When I would run nine minute mile my heart rate would be around 150 +.So my little test today was called the Water test let me know when my body starts stressing out I need water and I could tell this by my heart rate. So please let me know what you think about my water test and if you have seen the same thing when you are running.  Thanks for reading and have a great night…

One mile at a 9:30 pace.

 4.78 mile at a 8:22 pace

Then ten minutes on the elliptical (.48)