Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Wednesday's long run

Long run today was a little bit cold, it started off a little chilly going into the wind and when I turned around it seemed to get colder. The nice weather from yesterday is gone, hopefully to return soon.



Been having a problem getting going lately but after I get warmed up I feel great. It doesn't matter what discipline I'm doing, I seem to need more warmup time. For running I don't feel good untill about 6 miles into a run. When that happens I get start getting my HR up to the zone I want to run in.



Today 12 miles in 1:41:24 HR 150, 1 gel at mile 4 and my 4 bottle fuel belt full of Gatorade. Negative split the run by 3:20 cuz I just couldn't get going on the first half. Granted I started off into the wind but it wasn't that windy. My plan was to go out at 8:45's and then come back at 8:30's. I managed an 8:44 average going out but it seemed hard to do, comming back it seemed so easy and I averaged 8:10's. I really kicked it up at the end but still stayed in zone 2.



Here is the run data for anyone that cares to comment, it is typical of most runs that I do, it is an out and back course.



1-----0:09:00-----143

2-----0:08:31-----148

3-----0:08:41-----152

4-----0:08:54-----146 uphill and a stoplight

5-----0:08:41-----146 rolling hills

6-----0:08:36-----149

7-----0:08:22-----148

8-----0:08:17-----150 rolling hills

9-----0:08:03-----151 downhill

10----0:08:09-----153

11----0:08:02-----156

12----0:08:08-----156

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