Wow..Today was windy (and cold for me)! Week 2 - Workout 2 on the RLRF program. The schedule said to run 1 mile warm-up, 5 miles @ 7:26 then 1 mile cool-down.
Since I've started committed to stretching I now stop after my warm-up and do it. It takes about 10 minutes. The best spot to stop and stretch on the road near my house is about 1.5-1.75 miles out (depending where I start running). This makes my warm-up a little longer than the perscribed but I'm figuring more warm-up won't hurt anything. Like I mentioned above it was very windy with a steady 18 mph wind. The wind was a cross wind for the warm-up and the first mile but then I turned directly into it and ran 3 miles freezing and fighting the wind. The fourth mile got to me and I was really struggling. Mile 2, 3, and 4, on this route are all up hill with the 4th one being the steepest. Finally at mile 5 I turned with the wind and as you can see from my time I flew :-) The cool-down miles were mostly with the wind too, that's why I ran them at a 8:00 pace (wouldn't it be nice if 8:00 was my normal "easy recovery" pace!). I forgot to put on my HR monitor so I just ran by "pfeel" (wait...that's SlowJoe's term :-). Even though I had a 7:55 mile, when they were all supposed to be 7:26, I believe it was a sucessful workout. I really wanted and planned on making the avg. pace 7:10 but with the wind I just couldn't.
15 miles on Saturday...looking forward to that!
11/17/2011 |
Mile |
Time |
HR |
HR % |
Max HR |
1.75 |
8:55:00 |
Warm-up |
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1 |
7:13:00 |
No HR Monitor |
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2 |
7:21:00 |
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3 |
7:26:00 |
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4 |
7:55:00 |
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5 |
6:41:00 |
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1.5 |
8:01:00 |
Cool-down |
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Total |
53:32:00 |
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Tempo Miles |
36:36:00 |
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Pace |
7:19:12 |
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Ran Small Loop & Smallville |
49º - 18 mph Wind |
1.75 Miles warm-up, Stretch for 10 minutes, .5 Mile Tempo (Target 7:26), 1.43 Miles cool-down |
James 3:3-5
4 Sailing ships are driven by strong winds. But a small rudder turns a large ship whatever way the man at the wheel wants the ship to go. 5 The tongue is also a small part of the body, but it can speak big things. See how a very small fire can set many trees on fire.
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