And when I say long run, I mean my longest ever.... by a large margin. I did 7.2 miles Sunday morning. I just took it slow and easy. I had set out to do a minimum of one hour. The plan I'm following calls for a long run of 3 times my total 5K time. I did my last 5K in 28:21 so 3 times that would be an hour and twenty five minutes. That seemed a little excessive, thus the one hour goal. I started out just like always after a good warm up walk up the hill in the ball park next door. My heart rate immediately skyrocketed after staying at a pretty high rate throughout my warm up. I'm not sure what that was all about, or if it was even accurate. My garmin battery was pretty low and it's possible that played into the high reading. It settled down as I jogged down the long downhill stretch. I started to feel a little more comfortable, and tried to settle into a nice steady pace that I felt like I could maintain for an hour or more.
I tried to hold at around 11:00/mile and was generally right on target averaging around 10:50/mile with a couple of outliers at mile 1 at a pace of 10:32 and mile 6 at a pace of 11:08. Most of mile 1 is down hill, thus the faster time. I'm not sure why mile 6 was so slow. I wasn't feeling particularly fatigued at that point. Unfortunately at 6.2 miles the battery in my Garmin died so I don't have stats for the last mile or so. I felt like I generally stayed on pace until I finished up and could have kept going for a pretty long time at that pace.
Stats: I did an estimated 7.2 miles in an estimated 01:18:00 for an estimated average pace of 10:50/mile.
Next up: I'll do my tempo run tomorrow. That will be 35 minutes at approximately 10:00/mile. I averaged 9:37 last week, which is faster than the plan called for, but as long as I'm not slower than the plan, I feel okay about it.
I wimped out on my swim this morning. It's just really hard to get up on Monday's after being able to sleep in on Saturday and Sunday.
No comments:
Post a Comment