The Long Run

7.3@10:22, HR 124 bpm

Dropped my parents off at the airport, then drove to Suncoast Trail parking lot at 54 and Suncoast.  Ran north just over 3.5 miles and turned around.  Ok with carrying no water even though a little warm at the start, fortunately there was some cloud cover and a few light sprinkles.  I haven't run this route for a while.  It's kind of noisy at the points where the trail gets close to the parkway, especially over bridges.

Did 4/1 run/walk and mostly ran by feel and ended up with heart rate where I wanted it to be.  Feel like I'm slowly progressing with heart rate runs. Like last week I'll go for one day of speed or tempo.

Did a couple short weight circuits after the run.

8.78@8:27 HR 149 bpm

Did 12x400m speed workout.  Unfortunately not on a track but in neighborhood on a straight stretch of side road.  One direction was slightly uphill and of course down the other way, but not too far off from flat.

Speed wise, I kept expectations low, other than not quitting and getting all 12 done.

Fairly happy with results, with half of them being under 6:30 pace, and the slowest one was 6:48 pace.

1:40, 1:38, 1:42, 1:36, 1:37, 1:33

1:38, 1:34, 1:38, 1:34, 1:38, 1:33

Overall happy with recent progress and doing mostly slow running with one faster run per week.

5.32@10:37, HR 121 bpm

Early morning (for me at least), started my watch at 6:17.  Did 4/1 run/walk looping inside Westlake Village, dark for whole run except hint of light toward the end.

Needed to be back at the house by about 7:15 which I made.  Big girls away this week, so didn't have school dropoff this time.

8.64@9:56  HR 127 bpm

Run up and down Starkey Blvd from the church to just inside the park and then back.

4/1 Walk/run, able to get just under 10:00 pace average while being pretty close to goal heart rate (124).

4.23@10:33  HR 124 bpm

Shorter, easy run on the little but not nothing hills of Anderson Park.  Andy was dropping off his truck at the car audio place across the street so did my run, then picked up up and dropped him off at work.

Later that afternoon had lunch with him at the little Mexican restaurant next door, was pretty good, should go back there.

25.12@10:24,    HR 136 bpm

Double out and back run from Longleaf to inside Starkey park (with a couple miles on the dirt trails).  First trip out was just over 7 miles, then back to the car, and then another 5.5 miles out and then back for a total of 25 miles.

First 9 miles were solidly under 130 bpm, but HR crept up as the run went on, was also picking up the pace a little. 

Absolutely no stops other then refilling my water bottle after the first out and back, during which I kept the watch running to keep the pace honest.

For having run nearly a marathon unsupported felt pretty good.