I woke up not feeling so well this morning. I figured it was just congestion, but later realized that I was coming down with something. I decided to do my entire run, but to not look at the time on my watch for the first five miles. Instead I just monitored my HR to make sure that it didn't get too high. I made it through 5 miles with an average HR of 137, and a time of 44:00 (8:48 average... ouch that is slow). Based on effort I should have been going about 8:00 pace, but I could tell that I was going a lot slower. On the way back I sped up to a HR of 160 for 1 mile to test how sick I really am. 6:10 for the mile (21 seconds slower than a few days ago, but 4 seconds faster than last Saturday). The mile left me feeling reasonably optimistic that I am not too sick. Finished running 12 miles in 1:37:38 after making it through 6 miles in 52:38. |