AM: 2 hours 10' on the trainer. 209W. HR 123.
3x30' Tempo
I was going to do an easy run and strides before my race tomorrow, but I only got in one ride this week, and so I decided to do some lighter quality. 3' recoveries.
220W (126 BPM), 227W (131 BPM), 229W (134 BPM)
I have a five-mile race in the morning, my first foot race since last June. I think I have settled back into my running enough to know I can just make up a race pace and expect to run it. I think as I got fitter over the last 2-3 years, I had specific times I needed to run and it didn't work out, and I got disappointed. This was true for almost every race except Churchill's Half in 2023, when I actually surprised myself. A 5-mile race is enough of distance to get a good mark in the books, get a sense of lactate threshold, a projected current 10k time, and an updated subthreshold pace target to calibrate workouts, and if I run hard enough a lactate threshold heart rate.
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