Notes
Well, this is interesting. For this distance, at this temp, I ran virtually the whole thing--walked maybe 10 steps in the first mile, then walked 10 steps x2 when coming up the little hill in the 3rd mile. I worked at running very relaxed and easy and when the HRM did beep, I was able to bring it back down very quickly by just shuffling a little more. This was NOT the case this summer, or even a few weeks ago! Is it just the coolness?
Another thing is that this turned out to be almost exactly the pace I've been averaging on most of my run/walks for the past 2 weeks. I'll keep an eye on this on future MAF runs and see if this holds true in other cases. It'd be great if it did, as I can then do long runs w/o the annoyance of the beeping HRM, just using the Garmin timer.