Well, that was interesting. I decided I needed to do a HRmax test to pin down my training heart rates for Hadd, since I hadn't done a test in three years-plus. Fair enough. Jogged over to SHS, then did some strides. Hadd's recommendation was to do an all-out 800, rest two minutes, then do an all-out 400, and the closing HR at the end of the 400 should be just about your max. Faie enough. Did all that. My time for the 800 was 3:16, max HR 165. Rest two minutes, take off on the 400. It was as all-out as these old, tired legs can manage right now. Time: 90 seconds. Max HR: 164. I'm going to presume that dead legs were my limiting factor, not my heart rate. Do the old equations, my HR should be about 172. And that's about what I got three years ago when I did a hill test on the dreadmill. So I'm gonna presume it hasn't changed that much, and will still be in the ~170 range, and base my training paces off that. Then I ran home, the long way, and mostly in the rain. The rain didn't bother me. Being tired did. And I couldn't go slow enough to keep the HR below 130, especially on the uphills, where it was more like 140. Total for the afternoon, 8.7. A good day's work, and hopefully I worked up a few more mitochondria along the way along with finding out a ballpark number for HRmax. Now for tonight's date. Hmm. Not gonna say too much about that. Yet. | 