5:00 am. I did something really nutty yesterday after my 1/2 marathon PR on the treadmill. I'm going to Anaheim this weekend for a 2 week conference, excited to start my training schedule in a nice warm place :) Anyway, I saw that there is the LA 1/2 marathon this Sunday so just for fun I went to the sign up page but it said it was sold out. Not leaving good enough alone I then went to the 5K sign up page which wasn't sold out, in the 5K page I noticed that it gave me the option to select signing up for either the 5K or the 1/2 marathon. This sparked my curiosity and sure enough I found a loophole in the system. So, it looks like I'm running a sea level 1/2 marathon this weekend. (If you know my wife, (this means you Carina)) don't tell her. She would kill me if she found out I'm running a 1/2 marathon on Sunday when I'm suppose to be working. But I figure I'll be done with the race by 8:30 and be back for work before I'm even missed. Back to today, I tried to take it easy, but I really struggle running slower on the treadmill. I started out trying to keep my HR at or below 140 but after 3 miles I gave up and started running faster. Still a recovery, but I may need to replace recovery runs with swimming during my schedule just to insure I truly do recover, even at the risk of lower total miles.
| Distance | Time | Avg Pace
| Incline | Avg HR
| Max HR
| | 1 | 7:11 | 7:11 | 0 | 139 | 156 | | 2 | 7:18 | 7:18 | 0 | 140 | 143 | | 3 | 7:30 | 7:30 | 0 | 142 | 146 | | 4 | 7:25 | 7:25 | 0 | 146 | 150 | | 5 | 7:04 | 7:04 | 0 | 151 | 153 | | 6 | 6:53 | 6:53 | 0 | 154 | 156 | | 7 | 6:39 | 6:39 | 0 | 157 | 159 | | 8 | 6:01 | 6:01 | 0 | 165 | 171 | | Total | 56:05 | 7:00 | 0 | 149 | 171 |
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