AM/Lunch: 16.2 miles, averaged 7:33. HR 151.
4 x 2 Miles @ Half Marathon Effort
Did a few things around the house, including hanging a painting for Megan that I have needed to do for almost five years since we moved into the house. I slept a good deal last night, but was nervous about the workout. My legs have not been super responsive lately. I planned to do this workout, but kind of wanted to do 3 x 3 miles or even 2 x 4 miles just to get the miles done. After the first mile, I knew that I wasn't going to be able to handle that. Despite a good warmup, my legs were not responsive and my right quote was kind of achy. I managed to really run by effort and not force the pace, which was great because I would not have gotten through the workout. It was windy and cold, but the air was damp, so I sweat quite a bit. I have been working on not getting too caught up in numbers. I think I have gotten better about that as I have gotten older.
I did 3-3.5 minutes of very easy plodding between reps. I was more concerned with getting some solid faster miles in without too much time between, but enough time to get my HR back down into the 130s, though I didn't really check it.
(6:24, 6:20), (6:18, 6:18), (6:16, 6:21), (6:20, 6:20)
HR on the reps averaged around 166-168 or so, so definitely high marathon to half marathon effort. I think I need to drink more water. I am pretty good at it, but I have been consuming less than I typically do to try to combat the water weight gain from creatine supplementation.
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