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Easy JRP, 8:13 Ap

My left lower shin started hurting on Saturday. Going to watch it, but not sure what to do with it really. 

Today I ran a Lactate Threshold test on my Garmin 5s. I did this last year in April when I was training for Ogden marathon. I planned on seeing an improvement today based on my current fitness. While it didnt catch my LT today becuase it strugged to find my HR for the second to last interval, I pretty much have to do the test again to find that number I'm looking for. However, It did capture other data that is exciting.

April 18 2018.                                March 26 2019

Best split- 6:42min/mi                    6:22min/mi

Avg HR- 173 bpm                           165 bpm

MAX HR- 191 bpm                        196 bpm

Marathon prediction- 3:07:24          3:00:04

I'm thrilled with the progress I have made over the past 8 weeks, espeically lately. It's been fun watching my numbers come down and see my fitness improving. I went back and looked at my runs from the beginning of the year and compared similar current runs and have found a few interesting discoveries that I want to document for my records.

My effort based on my HR to cover the same distance of 8 mi/ 8:30 pace started in January at 90 suffer score (Strava Summit) and is now 32, meaning I have adapted quite a bit. For my long runs of 15 miles, it has dropped from. 165 to 124. My average HR has also dropped about a beat per week overall. where I used to average around 160-165 (depending on distance but similar effort) in January and now average 148-157 for the same distance and pace.

Good things are happening. Just got to keep it together for a few more weeks!

Resting easy. It feels like I am tapering. I even have a phantom niggle on my left shin to prove it.

You guys, I'm on cloud nine! I woke up at 2:30 AM and couldnt go back to sleep until 6:45AM but then had to get up at 7:20. So I felt like a real zombie from 4 hours of sleep. I was most stressed becuase I had one of my last bigger workouts left to do today and started to wonder if I could do it. Ive had that much sleep in the past and I've been fine, but I just felt super off today. I decided to go for it anyway, but put it off until later in the day; mostly becuase it took me that long to decide if I could do it.

I went to the allegist today due to some extreme asthma I get every winter from exercise induced asthma, but its worse in the cold air. They did some tests and found I was allergic to my favorite things... trees! Mostly evergreens. I guess I will stop licking them. Apparently, since those trees are coming out of dormancy, its really in the air right now. Since I'm trying to heal my lungs the most I can before Boston, I decided to take the workout inside, but I really didnt want to do it on the TM!

WU 1.5

8 mile tempo @ 6:41 first four, then last four at 6:31

Usually the TM is off by about 5-6 seconds per mile, so I averaged more like 6:35 for 8 miles.

I felt so smooth and controlled, it was playing with me. My legs felt like they were going 5k pace but I felt like I could have gone another 5-6 miles. Im really proud of myself.

My pod needs to be re-calibrated again, it had me at 7:00 and 6:50. Even then I killed my goal so I'm stoked.

CD for 1.5

fueled with a gatorade, water, gel and 1.5 caffeine

Friday’s are always the hardest. They are just a day you have to put it and shake it out.  Cadence and form is totally off today because my legs were complete sandbags. Nothing is hurting and I’m not sore I’m just so heavy. Even my friend compared my running to a  clydesdale but I was super flattered because I felt like an elephant. Lol

Easy 2 miles with Craig, Scott and Jeremy On JRP, the ran on my own for a bit then picked them up again with about 5 miles to go around 7:30 pace. Felt smooth and good today. I think the taper has slowly started.