11.81 miles in 90 minutes, 7:37/mi, HR 164. 27:30 warmup, 3.21 mi, 8:34/mi, HR 154. 35:00 Steady State, 5.12 mi, 6:50/mi, HR 173. 27:30 cooldown, 3.49 mi, 7:53/mi, HR 161. Got an early start for today's first run. Temps around 62F and sunny. Felt a bit tired and stiff on the warmup but settled in nicely during the Steady State portion. Started getting tired in the final third and noticed I kept dropping my head as a result (staring at the ground). Focused on keeping the effort up, good form through to the end. Nice cooldown. I think I managed to ease off just slightly from last week's Steady State and that the effort is right where it should be. 4 miles in 32:44, 8:11/mi, HR 148. Early evening run after work. Temp 68F w/ some clouds which made it feel much cooler than this morning's run in the sun. Very hard to get started....stiff and sore adductors that finally loosed up after a mile. Wondering how my body is going to handle the 3 relay runs. Decided against running in the VFFs for a while. My feet literally take too much damage and getting this close to the relay I don't want to do anything stupid. I need to find some grass-running opportunities to wear them. For now, they'll just be my walk-around-the-house shoes, which helps strengthen the calves too.
Somehow I got my shoe mileage on this pair wrong...luckily I log the miles on another site as well that tracks it automatically, since I obviously can't count.
Asics GT 2120 - 522.0 miles. | 