Lunch: 11.2 miles on the treadmill, averaged 8:02. HR 155.
6 x 1 Mile
Boy howdy. It's been a minute since I have done mile repeats. Maybe early 2019 when I did 7 x 1 mile in March in my unsuccessful buildup to the Glass City Marathon. I kind of planned on a wave tempo, alternating half miles at 8.0/8.5 for approximately 4-5 miles, but I have been wanting to do mile repeats for a while. They aren't fancy but it can be a productive workout. I was pleased with how this went, especially since I nailed the effort, which is tough to do without many workouts recently and the treadmill can be tough if you haven't been running on them much lately (the tendency is almost never to go too slow). I estimated based on my last two Friday workouts that low 7' pace would be a good place to start and that 6:30-6:40 would be hard but doable for perhaps the last repeat if I didn't overcook early. Started at 8.5 and progressed .1 each mile with .3 easy jogs. Pretty manageable, but getting tough the last part of the last repeat.
7:04, 6:59, 6:54, 6:49, 6:44, 6:39
HR 165-->170 with about 1 BPM increase each mile.
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