Conditions: Good clear day

Remarks: I was tired today, I woke at 8:30 and my first thought was lets go for a run! However I got the kids breakfast first before heading out the door. I found getting going very hard and even after the first mile when I got into my stride I felt my legs were tired.

Recovery: I got a lot done today. Brought the kids shopping for new runners. Cut the grass. Got my hair cut and bought myself new runners. By the end of the day my legs are tired and I’m wearing my compression socks to bed so that in the morning I’ll be ready for a 14 mile run.

Conditions: Warm, with a bit of wind (in particular for about 1/4 of each 1 mile lap in my face)

Remarks: What a great run. It is always a concern when you start something new. today I was doing 15 min warmup, 5 x 1 mile intervals (recovery between each interval was until my Heart Rate recovered to 120 bpm) and 10 min cooldown.

The Intervals went great, and I needed to walk to get my heart rate to 120, so if I jogged instead of walking (like I did for the 3rd Interval) the recovery time was longer.

I love looking at graphs for this type of workout 🙂

Conditions: raining – this is my first time wearing my running jacket this year.

Remarks: I decided to use my foot pod, and calibrating it messed up the start of the run.

Distance: 7.37 miles
Time: 1h 3m 42s
Average Pace: 8:42 min/mile
Average Heart Rate: 120 bpm
Max Heart Rate: 141 bpm

Splits:
Mile 1: 8:42
Mile 2: 8:14
Mile 3: 8:40
Mile 4: 8:54
Mile 5: 8:49
Mile 6: 8:50
Mile 7: 9:13

I really love running 🙂

Today was a 45 min easy run, I went out with John at lunch time for a 5 mile easy run.

Distance: 5.08 miles

Time: 43:56

Average Pace: 8:42 min/mile

Average Heart Rate: 121 bpm

Max Heart Rate: 133 bpm

Conditions: A bit of wind in my face for the first 2 miles (not much) good day for running.
Avg Temperature: 22.2 °C

Remarks: I nailed this run, I kept needing to hold myself back. It is these types of runs which I really enjoy and remind me why I like training for events and love running.

KatieAnn was with me on this run, I though of her a lot.

Todays run was a 15 min warmup, 4 miles at 7 min pace (marathon pace) and recovery for 10 min – I also set the watch to tell me when my Heart rate dropped to 120 BPM – I actually started to walk to get it to drop below 125!

Distance: 7.66 miles
Time: 58:32
Average Pace: 7:38
Average Heart Rate: 137
Max Heart Rate: 158

Distance: 5 miles
Time: 41:41
Average Pace: 8:19 min/mile
Avg Temperature: 23.2 °C

Average Heart Rate: 126
Max Heart Rate: 141

I didn’t track my heart rate for this run, but ran easy – it is good looking at the details below that my heart rate remained low.