#RunEveryDay
What is apparent to me lately is that the more layers of clothing, the slow I am. I can't think much about pace or heart rate bc too many factors mucking with it (footing, temps, etc.) I did have my highest week for mileage in a couple of months last week. I'm hoping I can carry that momentum into this week.
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So I rested the last couple of days. After the 5K time trial my legs were a little beat up so I just did a couple easy miles the next two days after that. My HM training actually had me doing a 5 mile tempo run on Monday (bad planning on my part as I put the training plan in as it was - not taking into consideration the 5K on the last day of my last training cycle).
Anyway - back to the gym today for my tempo run. One mile warmup, 5 miles at 8:00mpm pace, then a one mile cool down. Overall it felt pretty good. I was a little tired at the beginning, but hey it was 5:00AM but I settled in pretty well.
Hoping to hit 30 miles this week with a longer long run this weekend.
True for me as well. I run by HR these days because ... too many factors mucking up the works to run by pace! And if I run by what my body tells me to do I wouldn't run at all - it seems to like to sit on the couch mostly.
A lot of days I can't even access my watch. LOL! I used to think I'd like to try HR training, but my watch gets cadence watch and I just get stressed out micromanaging my heart rate. I suspect it is not for me. I tried it for 2 weeks during the pandemic and it just made me hate running.
Same with me. I've tried it before but in all honesty I feel like stressing out over my heartrate and watching it never let me actually settle in to my run and I think it actually sent my HR higher which would annoy me even more.
Totally understand about the annoyance of getting a valid HR reading and accessing your watch! I live in California so I can access my watch quite easily all the time. I've tried several HR straps and forearm optical sensors and they all suffer from cadence lock. I've finally gone back to a chest strap (Wahoo Tickr) with electrode gel applied to the contacts. That seems to work every time, as opposed to just wetting the contacts. I had a heart attack a couple years ago so I just feel way more comfortable knowing what my HR is doing when exercising. My watch displays only HR and training zone when I'm running. I don't obsess over it any more than I used to when I only cared about pace. I find it definitely helps me to stay in that sweet aerobic zone when I used to go right through that into threshold type effort levels.
Two nice days in a row and two days of running outside. Might try to get out again tomorrow because Friday = 8 more inches of snow (UGH) and then I'll be back on the treadmill for a while.
And here comes the snow. A good 3 inches when I got up this morning - I'm working from home but I got up to shovel out and clear off my daughter's car because she has to go into work today.
Got in a couple miles on the treadmill before shoveling so at least it's done. I really need to stretch a couple times today if I get the chance though because my right hip is a little tight.
In the last half hour, the extreme cold warning was called off. Yay! We've been in that for three days. It's still going to be -35*C (-31*F) for my run today. I'm starting to freak out a little about my race in mid-May. The winter has really killed my mileage and I'm not feeling like I've got enough time to build up to be ready. I guess that's how it goes sometimes. Just keep trying.