Singlet ≠ vest.

Not always. 

But the old school green one certainly qualifies. 

Hey all...

 

Dunno if you guys remember be, or if you should... But I had a great workout this morning.

 

Half mile walk, half mile run, 1/4 mile walk, half mile run, 1/4 mile walk.

 

Pathetic you say... I agree... But it's the first running I've been able to do this year.  

 

Last October I started having problems with my ankle, and I've been working with doctors and physical therapists since then trying to figure out what the issue is.  I finally had surgery the end of May where they found a bunch of bone chunks that they removed, as well as a few other minor problems.

 

Hopefully it's all fixed... This morning felt pretty good.  I'm quite fat and out of shape, but hopefully on my way back.

 

:-)

 

-Kelly

 Welcome back, KD. 

Welcome back, Kelly!  Good to hear you're fixed and getting back into it.

Welcome back Kelly!

In the stupid questions department, I am kinda half ass following a marathon program which called for four at half marathon pace tonight in the middle of my run. I did them at 7:48, which is what McMillian says my HM times should be based on my most recent 5k PR. Those miles hurt. No way I could have kept it up for a full half marathon. Should I slow it down next time?

This is why I don't train on pace.  McMillan doesn't know what the weather is like, whether you're workin' lots of hours, or hell maybe you just got married and are still in shock from that.  He doesn't know.  Yet he says run this workout at 7:48.

 

My suggestion is to set the Garmin for 30 - 35 minutes and go run at HM effort.  Set the display to show the time only.  Focus on the effort.  When you are done check and see what pace the effort translated to.  That's the way I did it back in the days when I did workouts and stuff.  It worked well for me.  Do this consistently and you will know what your pace is before even checking the Garmin.

This makes a lot of sense, except, I'm not at all sure what HM effort is for me. I'm still so new at this game.

My main point Sean was, that I found it a lot easier to train at a set effort than at a set pace, because effort is not affected by outside factors as much.  With practice you will get the hang of it.

Something else you could do is run a few 5K's over the summer without a watch.  I cannot believe how much of a learning experience it was when I did this.  It was a lot of fun, too.

Spaniel - Are you saying just suck it up?

No, I was confirming what Tater said about running by effort.  The pace I could hold for a full marathon fully tapered was a challenging 10-mile workout when done three weeks earlier in the middle of a full training load.

But sucking it up is never a bad idea either.