AM/Lunch: 16 miles, averaged 7:53.
60' @ Marathon Effort
7:12 pace @ 160 BPM
Kind of lost my running mojo the last two weeks. I feel like running, but not motivated by training so much and the excitement for Beach to Beacon is mostly gone, but I think I will get it back. I guess my average pace to be between 7:50 and 8:00 and it was 7:53 and I guessed my tempo pace to be between 7:12-7:15 average. It was 7:12, so if nothing else I have honed my intuitive sense of pace over the last 15 years of running.
I turned pace and splits off since summer has arrived and it is quite humid. Not too hot, but conditions you need to respect or you'll get burned. This worked well for the workout. I generally have been running these workouts by effort, but it is easy to get annoyed with pace when it is slower than previous weeks. I was running about 6:25-6:30 pace for around 52 minutes in April, so this was considerably slower, but I felt strong throughout and as though I could have pressed harder if asked to.
30' up/36' down
I think I will keep this as my long run and maybe add 5' each week so I can get something of a significant long run in for weight maintenance. I think I will shift my midweek workouts to minutes and HR to target 15k-10-mile effort to see what I can do in the next 5-6 weeks for Beach to Beacon and figure out what to do for this fall. Likely, I will target a half and try to bring my half time back into the lower-80' range.
Might start tracking my quality miles again to keep an eye on percentage of quality to easy miles.
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